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...Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...
...Enemy. In four years, Communism had established its own Vatican (a shiny, modern office building), its own Pope (Palmiro Togliatti), its own hierarchy of spiritual and secular servants. One of the most important was Luigi ("The Cock") Longo, a man with a sharp, beaked face, who is generalissimo of Italian Communism's army. His partisans, who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans, are estimated at 150,000. Daily, Italian police were finding more of Longo's arms caches; no one knew how many they failed to find. Longo's men face...
...among which are: the steadily growing neo-Fascist organization, Nationalistic Social Movement; Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats, the party now in power, backed by the Vatican and the United States; Saragat's right-wing Socialists, who recently broke away from the Nenni left-wing, which is combined with Togliatti's Communists in the Democratic Front...
There were some signs that the Communists had lost ground. One day last week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator...
Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...