Word: sogno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montesi case. In the hullaballoo over drugs and sex among high-placed Romans, both Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni and the national police chief quit their posts, and there was much talk of cover-up and hush-up. But the talk was not followed by proof.* Meanwhile, Magazine Publisher Edgardo Sogno began finding political and personal scandals about the Communists themselves (TIME, Nov. 1). And last week the Communists were saddled with a sort of Montesi case of their...
...long last, Italian newspapers were beginning to direct their nose for news toward a malodorous situation: the bad records of the Communists in the Chamber of Deputies. A onetime resistance hero named Edgardo Sogno began it with his Pace e Libertá campaign (TIME, Nov. 1). Last week Rome's influential II Tempo took up the history of bald and boisterous Vincenzo Moscatelli, a Communist Deputy and member of the party's Central Committee. In 1932 Comrade Moscatelli was caught by Mussolini's police and sentenced to 16 years in prison; that gave him a certain claim...
Demand for the Facts. By itself, Sogno's campaign is probably not enough to inflict mortal wounds on Italian Communism. But it may be a sign of a belatedly turning tide. Dozens of Communists in the Chamber and Senate, accused of various crimes (including the murder of rivals and wholesale robbery during the upheavals of the liberation), are unmolested because the Parliament as a whole has been reluctant to lift their parliamentary immunity: since the war hundreds of judicial requests for action against Communist M.P.s have been blocked. Said an editorial in Il Borghese: "This is the first time...
...Paris, after the war, as a member of the Italian foreign service, Sogno became impressed by the posters and publications of Jean Paul David's anti-Communist Paix et Liberté movement (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). After the heavy blow to Italian democracy in the 1953 elections, Sogno returned to Rome and started an anti-Communist monthly called Pace e Libertà. For his editor Sogno chose a formidable man: square-jawed Luigi Cavallo, an ex-Communist and ex-editor of the Red daily L'Unità. To dish the dirt on the Reds, Cavallo drew on extensive...
Begun on a shoestring, Pace e Libertà got off to a slow start, but now is growing by leaps and bounds. Its paid circulation is 70,000, and an almost equal number of copies are distributed free, many of them to the Communists themselves. Recently Sogno got enough funds to buy up the entire poster space in Rome for five days, and put up 6,000 posters devoted to the past of Italy's top Communists. At first, the Reds said disdainfully that they would not reply to such "drivel," but lately they have felt driven to long...