Word: togliatti
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...represent the will of the people. Klement Gottwald, the Premier, spent the war in Moscow while the Czech government in exile in London was valiantly resisting Nazi aggression. He was one of the original signers of the abolition of the Comintern in 1943. Some of the other signers were Togliatti, Dimintrov, Pauker, Tito, Thorez, and all other Communist puppet leaders today...
Proletarian Breath. At the Congress' opening session, Guest Speaker Palmiro Togliatti, dapper Communist boss, suavely declared: "Comrades, we feel profoundly united to you." Silver-haired Sicilian Giuseppe Casadei chimed in: "When peasants go to occupy feudal lands, should they go in separate groups, one Communist, one Socialist? When we face Fascist rifle fire, shall the Communists be in one square and the Socialists in another?" Sweepingly he pointed to a placard: "We want the powerful Socialist Party to be the vanguard of the united Popular Democratic Front." Cried he: "There, comrades, is the way to end proletarian enslavement...
Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, who epitomized the "respectable" (or blue-serge-suit) tactics which failed to gain power...
...must learn to criticize more and be criticized more. ... I confess that we committed a sin of naivete." The sin was that the Italian Communist Party had Sacrificed effectiveness for size. It was the world's largest outside Russia, but some of its members were incompletely disciplined. Said Togliatti: "We failed to renew the whole Italian social structure. . . . This error . . . forced us on the defensive when we should have been on the offensive. . . . U.S. imperialism today is attempting formation of a Catholic bloc round the Mediterranean [Italy, France, Spain] to form a spearhead against the Soviet Union. The Vatican...
...Pressure." Finally-over the kind of raw Italian coffee that sets an American's teeth on edge-we came to the big question: what are the Italian Communists up to and how far are they ready to go? Actually the question did not have to be asked, because Togliatti attacked it himself. He spoke with the disciplined fluency of a man long practised in saying no more and no less than the moment calls for: "We Communists haven't changed our program of reform since we left the government. Only today we obviously cannot realize it by collaborating...