Word: togliatti
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Kostylev in Rome, has submitted proposals to the Vatican for coordinated action between Moscow and the Holy See in the solution of Eastern Europe's postwar social and religious problems. . . . The proposals are understood to have been in a memorandum which Kostylev forwarded to the Pope through Palmiro Togliatti, [Italian] Communist (see above) and Alcide de Gaspari, [Italian] Christian Democrat leader...
...Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communists, ostentatiously attended High Mass at a Naples church and conferred with Monsignor Giovanni Montini, acting Papal Secretary of State. Afterward, Togliatti said: "We respect religion and we ask that the Church respect us on the basis of mutual tolerance. . . . The Communist, Socialist and Christian Democrat [Catholic] parties have mass followings. . . . There is no reason why Italy's three great mass parties cannot be mutually accommodating...
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...
This startling association of terms raised a dither. Said Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, boss of Italy's well-knit Communist Party: "I do not know what the Catholic Communist Party is. I will have to find out." Even if Voce d'Operaia turned out to be short-lived, it was a testimonial to the growing popularity of Russia and Communism among Italians...
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...