Word: togliatti
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...Vidali was proud when he got the assignment to bring Tito down. "This means," said one of his aides, "that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito." It hurt Vidali's professional pride to hear described as fake the careful documentation he and Palmiro Togliatti had built up against Tito, which was read out at the 1948 meeting of the Cominform, when Tito was expelled...
...aides spirited Togliatti off to an obscure villa owned by a party member, surrounded it with guards, summoned Trieste's best neurologist and telephoned Rome for the doctor who had operated on Togliatti's skull in 1950. "Venous congestion due to sunstroke," the doctors said in a joint communiqué; language had in it the suggestion that Togliatti had been struck down by a blood clot. It was plainly more than "indisposition," as Togliatti's own doctor let slip some days later. "It must not be forgotten, the state of tension of the honorable Togliatti on that...
...Communist daily L'Unita insisted at first that Togliatti had "a light and passing ailment," but later conceded that it was a little more serious. One day last week, as all Italy began to speculate on Togliatti's health and future, a medical bulletin announced that Togliatti had been able to spend some time on his feet: "He is untouched by paralysis." Some Rome diplomats suspect that Togliatti, now 62, may have suffered a severe apoplectic stroke...
...think the chances are ten to one that Togliatti is finished as an effective top-level Communist boss; physically, he just won't be up to it," said one diplomat...
...Only Togliatti's intimates know how ill he really is and whether the time has come at last to pick a successor for the man whose wile, resilience and strength built Italy's Communist Party into the largest (2,000,000 members by non-Communist estimate) and most persistently threatening (6,000,000 votes in the 1953 election) in the Western world...