Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shadow State. On Capitol Hill, the Roman Senate tried for centuries to keep republican government alive; the Caesars ended it. Today, at the foot of that hill, in the Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), which runs almost exactly along Rome's ancient city limits, stands a smart red brick house; there'rules the affable Palm-Branch Caesar of Italian Communism. His Communist Party organization is (as in all countries) a state within a state; in Italy, that shadow state happens to be more substantial than the feeble real...
...Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
Anticoli and Roviano are 40 kilometers from Rome. They are only a stone's throw apart, and their citizens spent most of the Middle Ages throwing stones and everything else available at each other, as they fought for possession of the Aniene Valley...
...himself made mayor. During the campaign he had become so excited painting emblems on the town's walls, that he wasn't sure any more that there was a difference between Socialists and Communists. The local Communists suggested that Anticoli needed a mayor with high contacts in Rome itself. Toppi agreed, and Anticoli proudly selected as its mayor a Communist from Rome. His job was that of porter at the Air Ministry, but, no doubt, he saw many important people. Porter Bernardo Eugeni comes up on weekends to be Anticoli's part-time mayor...
Then two weeks ago came the electrifying news that the Communists in Rome had voted for the Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into...