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...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. For days the two friends debated what to do. One of the men, Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread and Wine, world-famed novels that incarnated both the plight of humble Italians...
Though Italian Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti mustered thousands of mourners at the funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...
...covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti, of King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Frederika of Greece...
...Italians who voted for the Communists in last May's parliamentary elections knew that they were voting for Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party...
...years passed and Nilde lived high on the remote Sacred Mountain, local Red leaders began to grumble: she spent too much time in Rome and neglected her own people. Legally married Communist wives resented Nilde's special position. Scurrilous jokes circulated about the affair of Togliatti, now 65, and Nilde, 38. And there was the question of the $64,000. In twelve years as a Deputy, Nilde Jotti had made only eight speeches, all brief and all cliches denouncing NATO "imperialism." The local Reds calculated that her pay for each of those eight speeches was $8,000. When...