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...Palmiro Togliatti, son of a poor Genoese bookkeeper, who fled from Fascism in 1926; between foreign assignments for the Comintern (which included organizing the Garibaldi Brigade in the Spanish Civil War), he studied revolutionary strategy and wrote polemics in Moscow. He thrice escaped death (he was condemned to death by Mussolini, stabbed in Spain, shot at in 1948 in Rome). Shortly after U.S. troops invaded Southern Italy he flew to Naples, became leader of Italy's 2,283,000 Communists...
...Laugh. In Italy, which boasts Europe's largest Communist Party outside Russia, Moscow has so far permitted Boss Palmiro Togliatti to follow freewheeling, flexible tactics in his pursuit of power. Many Communist workers and peasants understand little of Marx's ideology and are permitted deviations (e.g., open attachment to the Roman Catholic Church) which might mean a purge in more tightly disciplined Communist Parties. But, proclaimed the Red Party newspaper Unita last week, "there is a need to eliminate . . . the spirit of indifference and easy living...
Even Communist bigwigs are prey to dangerous indifference. One of Togliatti's own close friends, who felt that the Kremlin was taking itself altogether too seriously, recently remarked: "The best cure for the Russians would be a year in Naples where they could learn to laugh." In Eastern Europe, comrades have been made to laugh out of the other side of their mouths for such pleasantries...
...dessert, there was Palmiro Togliatti, who appeared in person to make a fiery speech in which he dwelt smugly on Russia's possession of the atomic bomb. After the boss's speech, the carnival ended in a burst of fireworks, followed by glowing reports from the party treasury that the Florence carnival had boosted the total sum collected for the Communist press beyond 300 million lire (slightly less than half a million dollars...
...Understand?" Beside the Anzio beachhead, war-ruined Genzano calls itself "Little Stalingrad," takes pride in supplying table wines to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. Over half its 10,000 people (many of them unemployed, some dwelling in caves) support the Communists. Yet they are married in the church, have their children baptized, and are buried with a priest blessing the grave and a banner-bearing Communist official paying pompous graveside respects. Last Sunday an old woman peddling the Communist paper L'Unitá was surprised when asked what she and her fellow Communists would do about the church...