Word: togliatti
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...military divisions rode through the streets of Rome one day this week. Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac. Crowds jammed the lovely, narrow streets of the city of Augustus, of St. Peter, of Garibaldi, of Comrade Togliatti. The cheers shook the ancient stones. Women wept. Children, perching on their fathers' shoulders, waved and repeated the shout they heard all about them: "Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa...
...days Merlino and Faticati pleaded with the Hungarians; they spoke of their Communist record, their belief in the proletarian ideals of Marx and Togliatti. They gladly wrote the 30-page life histories the police required and pictured their wretched lives in Naples. They asked for a chance in Hungary. The secret police sent them, without trial, to a concentration camp for political unreliables...
...friends were tied down with chains to planks and metal rings, left wrists to right ankles, right wrists to left ankles. "The rings fitted very tightly." said Merlino, "and the slightest movement caused terrible pain. The torture lasted an hour and a half. I remember I once shouted, 'Togliatti, come and see what you've done...
Lira-Pinching. As Premier. Pella has stuck to caution in domestic affairs and well-timed excursions into foreign affairs to build his popularity in the country. Employing the almost forgotten wile of courtesy, he has so far won the support of the Monarchists and toned down enemies like Togliatti and Nenni. He still treats each lira as if it were the last of the species: he never uses the Premier's special railroad car, has dismissed his police-escort car, recently borrowed a tiny Fiat for a vacation trip instead of using his gas-greedy Alfa Romeo. With...
...appeared to be a retreat from the unequivocal declaration of 1948. "This," cried Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...