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Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...
Survivors from the old Cabinet included independent Count Carlo Sforza, elder Philosopher Statesman Benedetto Croce and aggressive young Communist Palermo Togliatti, who was known as "Ercole" (Hercules) when he worked with the defunct Communist International in Moscow. Said Bonomi of his Cabinet: "No one, absolutely no one, with any Fascist connections at all is in it; only men pure of Fascism...
Communist Palmiro Togliatti, 51, Genoa-born, Comintern-trained, now Minister Without Portfolio in the new Italian Government, led onetime antiroyalist politicians in swearing allegiance to the House of Savoy. In the revamped Cabinet, his party held the all-important Ministry of Agriculture, with influence in every Italian village. Observers reported that Communist-and Russian-prestige had never been higher in Italy...
...little King's political opponents had not held firm. First to break the united front of the six anti-Fascist parties, which at Bari last January called for the King's abdication, were the Communists. Pronounced their little, bespectacled leader, Palmiro Togliatti, recently returned from a long exile in Moscow: The "monarchical question" must be "shelved in the interests of national unity" and the war against Germany. Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along...
What Says the King? When Marshal Pietro Badoglio heard of Umberto's interview he denied that it had occurred: Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto...