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...Palmiro Togliatti will be remembered as the Communist leader who came closer than any other to seizing power for the Reds in Western Europe - and failed...
...World War II and resumed leadership of the party he had helped found. Italy's Reds, who had played a big part in the resistance, were well armed, and To gliatti might have seized power if he had risked civil war. He did not, and Stalin later sneered, "Togliatti will never make a revolution. He's a professor...
Thorez is haunted by the example of the Italian party, which has actually grown under the leadership of Palmiro Togliatti (present membership: 1,700,000). Togliatti has been far more flexible than the hidebound Thorez, has encouraged more freedom of expression and more young blood in his party. While not pro-Peking, Togliatti has not rushed to line up with Khrushchev in his fight against the Chinese-simply to show his independence from Moscow...
Search for Support. This has drawn many French and other Western European comrades toward Togliatti's way of doing things, has precipitated a significant split between the French and Italian parties. Always sensitive to Maurice's concerns, his formidable wife Jeannette Vermeersch, a party veteran of 35 years, rose at last week's Paris Congress to denounce the pro-Italian faction...
...deal was promptly and bitterly attacked by foes from all sides. Nenni's pro-Communist wing continued to denounce it as a sellout to the bourgeoisie. Liberal Spokesman Giovanni Malagodi said the coalition heads Italy "directly toward Communist shores." Comrade Palmiro Togliatti sneered at Nenni's claim that the Socialists would change things once they got into government, and snapped: "We could define such a vision of power as Stalinist...