Word: togliatti
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This bird-brained little socialite, a fellow traveler like many other Italian bluebloods, would think just what Palmiro Togliatti, alias Ercole Ercoli, alias Mario Correnti, wanted her to think. He was out to conquer an essentially anti-Communist people through bloodless, "democratic" means. In just three years he had worked a political miracle...
...that it needed no theoretical encouragement? How did Communist influence manage to reach so deeply into the heart of the civilization it sought to destroy? Part of the answer lay in the results of 20 years of Fascism; part of it lay in the extraordinary political genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part of it lay in Western civilization's failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that...
...Work Is Finished." What were Togliatti's motives, and what did he achieve? The paramount fact was that the Communists' support of the Vatican coincided, with jeweled precision, with the new Italian Communist strategy of shifting attention and activities from the industrial north, traditionally anticlerical, to the agrarian south. In recent weeks the Communists' best agents and organizers have been moved down from Milan and Turin (where, said a Communist editor in conversation last week, "our work is already finished"), to concentrate on the peasants. Togliatti's tactic had undercut the Christian Democratic Party...
...Togliatti had a second motive. This had been a supreme opportunity to display himself as arbiter of Assembly decisions. The Kremlin's legate had proved to De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats that-alone-they could not carry off one of their most cherished objectives. Socialist Pietro Nenni, after a year of playing footie with the Communists, now knew that Togliatti could give him a splintering kick in the shins at will. If Nenni and his Socialists were ever to walk again, they might have to make peace with the disaffected Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat in a last, desperate...
...sides knew that Communism had won a major victory on Catholicism's home ground. It was indeed a happy birthday for Palmiro Togliatti. Yugoslav Communists next door picked a new legend for their Italian coreligionists: "Father Palmiro and his Communist Curates...