Word: togliatti
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...musical tongue, and Italians traditionally make colorful orators, but De Gasperi is a rambling, unmusical speaker who can stretch a few scribbled notes into a 90-minute discourse. Italians are accustomed to the spectacular in politics -Garibaldi and his red-shirted 1,000; the Blackshirts marching on Rome; Palmiro Togliatti's Reds tearing up piazzas. Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing...
...extreme left: Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling "Socialists" and their splinter-party allies. Strength at the last election: 31% (but believed by the experts to have gained some strength since...
...France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into a chartered Polish airplane at Le Bourget, he seemed the symbol of what his French party had become-soft and flabby, and sunk in gloom. To the south, Italy's Palmiro Togliatti hastily scraped together a delegation, stuffed long woolen underwear and his Russian fur cap into a suitcase of a type the Italians call Americana, and hurried off to Moscow...
...separate amendments and wanted to debate them all. Night after night they sent a steady stream of speakers forward to keep parliament in session until dawn; when larynxes failed, they used fists, chair legs and football rushes. Once, as a vote approached on an important maneuver, Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti deployed a cordon of Communist deputies around the ballot box to keep others from voting. One by one, pro-government deputies managed to break through to drop small wooden balls (white for yes, black for no) into the box. Infuriated, the Reds tossed all the voting equipment into...
Moving Furniture. To put an end to all the stalling, De Gasperi demanded a vote of confidence. That automatically restricted deputies to one final speech apiece, and inside & outside the Chamber Togliatti's toughs made the most of it. They touched off a riotous general strike which filled the streets of Italy's biggest cities with the sounds of surging crowds, police sirens and thudding truncheons. As the Chamber went into a nonstop session, the Reds monopolized the sofas and emergency cots set up in the Chamber, so that tired non-Communist deputies could not catch cat naps...