Word: togliatti
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Compared to shrewder and more flexible Reds like Yugoslavia's Tito or Italy's Togliatti, Ulbricht is a small and limited man. But by the beginning of World War II, years of internal fratricide, Russian purges and Nazi scythe-swinging had cleaned German Communism of its commanding figures, and left only what Nikolai Bukharin once called a band of "obedient dunces." To Moscow, Walter Ulbricht seemed the safest choice. He was ordered to Moscow for most of the war years to prepare for the day when the Red flag would be raised over Berlin...
...raised to permit three western newsmen to attend a "world peace council," and to hear Comrade Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg talk about the "entirely new circumstances" which had caused the Soviet Union to "want to reach an agreement with those who profoundly dislike us." In Italy, Communist Leader. Palmiro Togliatti advocated bringing either the Communists or the left-wing Socialists into the government, talked of "synchronized action between the two great working-class parties." In France, Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, in his first speech to the faithful since his return from 2½ years' medical treatment in Russia, reminded workers...
Disturbing statistic: of 2,700,000 youths from 21 to 25 voting for the first time, 1,200,000 voted for the totalitarian left, less than a million for the democratic center. Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists had been expected only to hold their own. In the last days of the campaign, a U.S. Senate committee hearing 4,000 miles away gave the leftists effective ammunition for crumbling one of the pillars of De Gasperi's campaign-his ability to keep U.S. aid flowing to Italy. Communist newspapers and orators recited...
...Italy's first general-election campaign since 1948 went into the final week, two of the extremists' leaders, Communist Palmiro Togliatti and Monarchist Achille Lauro, took to their beds, white with exhaustion, but Premier Alcide de Gasperi, thinner and older (72) than either, seemed to gain strength. He abandoned his campaign train and took to the air, flying to Sardinia and Sicily to rally the voters...
...other statesman in Europe today. To take a country which has undergone 20 years of Fascist rule, and just come through a devastating war, and build it up as he has. is nothing short of political genius.""It Looks Easy." Always slashing and ripping at his flanks were Togliatti's Communists and the fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni. First they were in De Gasperi's coalition, infiltrating, sabotaging, preparing to take over a la Prague...