Word: spano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Quirinale, an angry column marched to the Viminale (Government headquarters). There a delegation of its leaders, including Unità's fiery Editor Velio Spano, who is also a member of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, handed Premier Ivanoe Bonomi an ultimatum: immediate and drastic reforms, or resign. Said Bonomi: "This is no time for me to desert...
...Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...