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...week leaked news of a secret session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. After the regular congress sessions had ended (Feb. 25) the 1355 Soviet delegates were summoned to a secret, 6 p.m. meeting at the Great Kremlin Palace. Foreign Communists (even leaders like Italy's Togliatti, France's Thorez) were barred. Last week the secret of what happened at the secret meeting was leaked to foreign diplomats and newsmen. TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, taking a plane from Moscow to Bonn, was able to file a detailed, authenticated report...
...adjusting to the new line. In satellite Poland, Communist newspapers published pictures and laudatory biographies of Polish Communist leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were the present [Soviet] leaders during the period when they say that collective leadership was lacking? What about their...
...heartburns among the Communists themselves. The trouble was most apparent in Italy, which has the largest Communist Party outside Communist territory. In Rome last week 500 Reds, wearing red scarves and calling themselves Democratic Communists, marched through the streets shouting protests against the "soft" leadership of Palmiro Togliatti...
...Rome's swank Parioli district they gathered in a movie theater in response to a call from 39 Communist leaders, mostly onetime partisan fighters in World War II (including five expelled from the party by Togliatti and 14 with expulsions pending). These were the militants: they had read their Marx and Lenin; they believe in the inevitability of violence. They issued a manifesto accusing the party directorate of abandoning the Marxist-Leninist line, of giving up the fight against capitalism and of behaving not like revolutionaries, but like reformed Socialists who believe that Socialism may be attained by parliamentary...
Disavowing the idea of forming a breakaway group, the dissidents said their immediate aim was to force the party to convoke an all-Italy congress at which Togliatti's leadership would be tested by vote. But Togliatti, due back from Moscow where he had enthusiastically endorsed the Khrushchev line (a confirmation of his longtime policy in Italy), was more firmly entrenched in the leadership than ever before. The old militants were naive indeed if they thought Communist policy could change from the bottom...