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...Italy, similar intentions were flaunted last week by Palmiro Togliatti: "As to the hypothesis that the Russian army would pursue on our territory an aggressor, I think that Italian people....would have the evident duty to aid in the most efficient way the Soviet army, in order to give that aggressor the lesson he deserves" In Britain, Communist Boss Harry Pollitt threatened sabotage in case of war with the Soviet Union...
...Italy, the sentiment had not yet broken through the surface so visibly, but the Communists moved fast to help it along. Cachin went to Italy bearing the word. Sure enough, the evening after Cachin arrived, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti in a speech at Bologna said "complete" collaboration between East and West was possible. He denied Russia was planning a "revolutionary war." The same day the Reds halted their "campaign of noncollaboration" in the factories. Reports circulated that woolly-minded Giuseppe Saragat was considering a new "unity" bloc between his recently anti-Communist group of Socialists and the Nenni (pro-Stalin...
...been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before we got to Rome, Communist Leader Togliatti had already been shot...
Still munching and discarding wrappings and bread crusts, they joined a huge Communist parade to the vast, oval-shaped Foro Italico which was transformed into a vast picnic ground; thousands squatted on the pavement and feasted from cardboard box lunches. In the glow of the setting sun, Togliatti appeared on a platform. He did not rant or threaten; he simply said: "A great sadness fills our souls when we see the ever spreading discord in our country . . . We witness this offensive being launched against workers who fight for their daily bread...
...triumphantly carried a captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...