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Dialectics & Devils. That day was Palmiro Togliatti's 54th birthday. He obviously intended to enjoy the day. Togliatti began by reminding the Christian Democrats that he himself had studied canon law (at Turin University) and needed no help in its interpretation. He recalled his words to last year's Communist Party Congress: "Since the . . . Church will continue to be the very center of our country-and hence any conflict with it would disturb the consciences of many citizens-we [Communists] must arrange carefully our relations with the Catholic Church...
...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's appeal to the peasants that the real choice lay between Christian democracy and Red atheism...
...line on Kaputt. Curzio Malaparte, born near Florence in 1898, was a Fascist even before the 1922 march on Rome. Says Malaparte: I too, was of course, a Fascist as was everybody at that time for the same reasons for which everybody is now antiFascist. He became editor of Turin's influential La Stampa and stood very well with the Duce. Later he got into trouble with Fascist big shots (even sat in jail a bit), but it was all personal, not ideological...
...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
...Manhattan last Sunday, in NBC's streamlined, salmon-pink studio 8H, little, white-haired Arturo Toscanini, 78, celebrated the soth anniversary of that night in Turin by conducting La Bohème's first two acts on the air. He scheduled the last two acts for the following Sunday...