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...Italy's postwar Constituent Assembly one day in 1946, the roving eye of Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti came to rest on one of the comrades. "Let's move down a couple of benches," Togliatti suggested to an aide. "I want to sit opposite that comrade with the pretty legs." It was a fateful move...
...years later, as Togliatti was leaving Rome's Chamber of Deputies, pistol shots cracked in the heavy July air, and Togliatti fell wounded. With a scream of horror, a woman darted forward and flung herself protectively over Togliatti's body. The madman assassin, betrayed perhaps by chivalrous instincts, hesitated to shoot again, and was caught. The comrade with the pretty legs had saved Togliatti's life...
Moving In. By that time Comrade Leonilde Jotti, graduate of a Roman Catholic university in Milan, onetime language teacher, wartime partisan and postwar Red Deputy, had become Togliatti's mistress, though 27 years his junior. So completely did the buxom, black-haired girl from Reggio Emilia capture the affections and feed the ego of the brilliant, moody Togliatti that he got a legal separation from his wife, Rita Mon-tagnana, a white-haired intellectual, and went off to live with Nilde Jotti in a high-walled villa on Rome's Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain...
...relationship violated the precepts of both church and state, but it got the sanction of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party in closed session. Nilde Jotti became known everywhere, even in the pages of the party newspaper L'Unita, as "la Compagna" (the companion) of Togliatti. She traveled with Togliatti to Russia as his "secretary" while Stalin was alive. After Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov publicly referred to her as Togliatti's "companion," and Anastas Mikoyan even introduced her as "Mrs. Togliatti...
Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...