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...Palmiro Togliatti's Italian Communists last week decided to test their muscles. For the experiment they chose Rome itself. The action consisted of a taut parade of 30,000 Communist partisans, followed by a general strike-all painstakingly stage-set as a pageant of Communist power. But the action drifted away from the script; toward the end there were touches of Mardi gras and, finally, Italian Communism's worst humiliation...
...what they have to say. He came over and shook hands and sat down at our table. I had seen him many times before, but had never met him. Few Americans have: never in his life had he sat down to dinner with an American newspaperman. He was Palmiro Togliatti, captain of the world's biggest Communist party outside Russia...
...Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italian Communism, last week used military words such as "counteroffensive" and "mobilization." To the Communist Central Committee convened in Rome he declaimed: "We have not yet achieved our main objective-conquest of a progressive democracy. ... It is hence necessary to develop a decisive democratic battle, not only on the parliamentary terrain, but in all fields of the national life. ... It is necessary to liquidate this Government of reaction...
Next day, top Communist Palmiro Togliatti gave Communist Terracini a public dressing-down. The Italian Communist Party announced officially that Terracini's interview "expresses the false and dangerous tendency of putting on the same plane imperialist aggressors, who are fomenting war and intervening in the internal life of peoples . . . and states which, like the Soviet Union, necessarily follow a policy of defense of peace and never dream of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. . . . Opinions of the kind expressed by Comrade Terracini can only serve to disorient the working masses in a battle which they must wage...
Umberto Terracini has the reputation of a brave man. He spent 18 years in Mussolini's prisons. From his presiding rostrum in the Assembly he had once rebuked his own party boss: "Honorable Togliatti, you don't have the floor. I beg you to be silent." Terracini had been known to believe, in the past, that the Kremlin might err. He had raised such a fuss over the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 that he had been banished from the party's inner councils for a while. But last week even Umberto Terracini judged that...