Word: togliatti
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...fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
...Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti...
...stood up in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and made a motion: let the House sit seven days a week to speed debate on the government's electoral reform bill. Up popped Socialist Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni to cry: "The majority is attempting a coup." Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, discarding his usual pose of blue-serge respectability, shouted: "This isn't a Parliament. It is a bivouac of priests." From the right came the reply: "Go back to your Soviet Parliament, Togliatti. Your game will be up there." The fight...
...strapping ushers rushed in. Prohibited from laying hands on the honorable members, the thin line of frock-coated ushers compromised by kicking shins. They were swept aside as the factions closed, fists waving, drinking glasses hurtling, chair legs thudding on skulls. From his seventh-row plush seat, Red Chief Togliatti, carefully guarded by a Red deputy, watched with a connoisseur's interest. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 71, in the front benches, prudently retired to safer ground...
Next day, in case anyone should think that Nenni's effort did not have full Kremlin backing, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, in his best double-breasted blue suit, told the deputies that Europe must choose between "a strong and friendly Russia in a prodigious moral and material ascendancy, which offers peace and well being to the entire world, and a barbarous America which openly prepares for war . . . The Italian government, if it is not completely blind, should establish profitable contacts with the Soviet bloc...