Word: palmiro
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communists, ostentatiously attended High Mass at a Naples church and conferred with Monsignor Giovanni Montini, acting Papal Secretary of State. Afterward, Togliatti said: "We respect religion and we ask that the Church respect us on the basis of mutual tolerance. . . . The Communist, Socialist and Christian Democrat [Catholic] parties have mass followings. . . . There is no reason why Italy's three great mass parties cannot be mutually accommodating...
Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...
This startling association of terms raised a dither. Said Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's well-knit Communist Party: "I do not know what the Catholic Communist Party is. I will have to find out." Even if Voce d'Operaia turned out to be short-lived, it was a testimonial to the growing popularity of Russia and Communism among Italians...
Communist Palmiro Togliatti, 51, Genoa-born, Comintern-trained, now Minister Without Portfolio in the new Italian Government, led onetime antiroyalist politicians in swearing allegiance to the House of Savoy. In the revamped Cabinet, his party held the all-important Ministry of Agriculture, with influence in every Italian village. Observers reported that Communist-and Russian-prestige had never been higher in Italy...
...little King's political opponents had not held firm. First to break the united front of the six anti-Fascist parties, which at Bari last January called for the King's abdication, were the Communists. Pronounced their little, bespectacled leader, Palmiro Togliatti, recently returned from a long exile in Moscow: The "monarchical question" must be "shelved in the interests of national unity" and the war against Germany. Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along...