Word: togliatti
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...Name of History. One who knew him intimately then says: "Till this moment, Togliatti would not have accepted too rigid dictation from Moscow. Now he began losing all such scruples." Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...Togliatti and his Communist friend, Writer-Philosopher Ignazio Silone, spent days discussing what they should do. Silone refused, left the party, now leads, with Giuseppe Saragat, a decent, ineffectual anti-Communist group of dissident Socialists. But Togliatti bowed to Moscow and turned in the names. There is blood on that blue serge, doublebreasted suit...
...Migliore. After this test, Togliatti rose rapidly in the international hierarchy. Between foreign assignments he lived and wrote in Moscow. Said one of his friends: "He is one of the few Western Communists who can truthfully boast of Stalin's personal trust and friendship...
...Communists who signed the decree dissolving the Comintern, as the first step toward the postwar period's "respectable" Communism.* A year later, he was ready for his most important assignment: Andrei Vishinsky himself got the Allies to okay Togliatti's return to Italy...
...Togliatti is no sawdust Caesar. His manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...