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Like a Phoenix. Thus last week, for the 29th time since World War II, Italy lapsed into governmental crisis. On the surface, this crisis seemed a bad one, with no solution in sight. "Siamo pronti per i colonnelli" ("We are ready for the colonels"), cried a young Roman in disgust at the nation's squabbling politicians. Indeed, in another, less patient land, the kind of chaos and confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic...
...Stalin - and had even at Stalin's orders betrayed the Italian Socialists to the Fascist police - Togliatti now enthusiastically embraced "polycentrism" - that is, the right of each national Communist Party to follow its own course. When criticized from the outside, Togliatti would merely give a vastly expressive shrug: "Siamo italiani [We are Italians...
Anecdote: Shrugging her bent shoulders at one of these posters the old portress of an Italian palace said to a U. S. lady calling on her mistress: "Signora, noi siamo in brutte mani! (Madam, we are in ugly hands...
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