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Italians, aroused by the events in Hungary, for the most part rejoiced in this rebuke to the commissar. But one official in the Foreign Office sighed: "The presence of Suslov at the congress would have been an embarrassment to [Italy's Red Boss] Togliatti, because it would have been clear evidence of Togliatti's subjection to Moscow, and to the toughest Stalinist in Europe. Togliatti will find things easier without him." As for fears that Suslov's presence might provoke anti-Russian demonstrations, a Western diplomat cracked: "A little pushing around wouldn't hurt...
...Emanuele Rocco, an editor of Italy's Communist daily Il Paese since 1952 and longtime protégé of Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Rocco, 34, first worked or L'Unita and helped turn it from a wartime underground weekly into the official Communist daily (estimated circ 350.000), which claims to be Italy's second biggest newspaper (after Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera). On Il Paese (estimated circ. 50,000), L'Unita's sister paper, Rocco played up stories of Russian brutality in Hungary, persuaded Editor in Chief Tomaso Smith to run editorials...
...Italian Communist delegation, led by Luigi Longo, No. 2 to Italian Communist Leader Togliatti, was warmly received, and Comrade Longo was reportedly much interested in Tito's "workers' management," which he described as "direct democracy." On the other hand, the French Communist Party, rigidly controlled by the Molotov-Suslov faction, it was said, was dragging its feet on invitations to send a delegation to confer with Tito...
...pundits were reckoning without the Byzantine deviousness of Lenin (formerly Stalin) Prizewinner Pietro Nenni. One evening last week Nenni and Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti held a ceremonious meeting in a caucus room of the Chamber of Deputies. When they emerged after 90 minutes of dickering, the "unity of action" pact was a thing of the past, but Socialist-Communist collaboration was not. Instead Nenni and Togliatti had worked out a "new form" of relationship -another written agreement calling for "close consultation between the Socialist and Communist Parties both at the summit and at the base...
Exactly what the new agreement implied no one (except Nenni and Togliatti) really knew, but its clear effect was to postpone the unification of Italian Socialism and the emergence of a strong, democratic left wing in Italy. Said angry Giuseppe Saragat: "The new pact reveals that those Socialist Party members who want autonomy have surrendered to Communist forces now within their party apparatus. It can mean the end of a great hope." Said Turin's La Stampa: "Another round for Togliatti...