Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Palmiro learned theological disputation at Turin University, where he won a law scholarship. Later he went into Socialist journalism. In 1921, he was among the men who led the left wing's secession from the Socialist Party and founded the separate Communist Party of Italy. Five years later, when Musso lini's police were beginning to make things hot, Togliatti fled to France...
...then says: "Till this moment, Togliatti would not have accepted too rigid dictation from Moscow. Now he began losing all such scruples." Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...Italian Socialists were frustrated in another way. Demagogic Pietro Nenni, head of the Socialist Party, is caught in the Communist line, though he still claims to be independent. To a U.S. newsman he explained last week: "The Communists are here. I would be very happy if they weren't, or if we had a Communist Party the size of yours in the U.S. That just isn't the situation, so we have to work along with them." Nenni's own followers have taken to calling themselves "Nenni Communists...
...Viva Gli Zulu!" Last June, bonfires in Anticoli's square and the Red Flag fluttering from Roviano's tower heralded the election victory of the Socialist-Communist bloc over landowners and shopkeepers. The Christian Democrats virtually threw the election away when their provincial leader, coming to a rally of the local party, swung into Roviano driving a long, sleek Alfa Romeo. Roviano's children, squealing with delight, climbed all over the strange vehicle, but the citizenry hooted its driver out of town. In Anticoli, a pretty young girl who was chief Communist organizer practically swung the election...
Roviano's left-wing vote had been preponderantly Communist, Anticoli's Socialist. Roviano's choice of a mayor was easy and quick-local Communist Leader Adalgiso Scacchi, a miner who picked up the gospel from Polish comrades he had worked with in the mines of France and Belgium after World War I. Sober, shrewd Scacchi was not swept off his feet by the post-election rush of citizens wanting to join his party. Said he: "Communism is something you have to learn. Sometimes it takes 20 years, often a lifetime. We only want real Communists-better...