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Died. Giuseppe Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...
...year ago, aged 91, the old man retired from politics for the second time to his lovely villa near Rome. There last week, his daughter and four sons heard his lifelong friend, Right-Wing Socialist Senator Giuseppe Romita, announce with elaborate simplicity: "The Honorable Orlando has just died...
...three groups into which the convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...
Saddest cases were the left-wing Socialists, who under Pietro Nenni had joined the Communists on the single Popular Front ticket. Said tough former Socialist Minister Giuseppe Romita, urging a break with Nenni: "The Popular Front absorbed and nullified our party...
Raise You Five. In Palermo, Sicily, Bandit Giuliano, learning that there was $3,820 on his head, retaliated, put $9,434 on Interior Minister Romita...