Word: unita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist daily L'Unita insisted at first that Togliatti had "a light and passing ailment," but later conceded that it was a little more serious. One day last week, as all Italy began to speculate on Togliatti's health and future, a medical bulletin announced that Togliatti had been able to spend some time on his feet: "He is untouched by paralysis." Some Rome diplomats suspect that Togliatti, now 62, may have suffered a severe apoplectic stroke...
Triestini had long been pictured as fearful of the economic losses that would follow the withdrawal of U.S. and British forces. But the worry was not in evidence in the Piazza dell' Unita. The crowd irrupted in a fervor of patriotism. Some oldsters broke down in tears. Youths began chanting, "Italia! Italia!" and voices were raised in the refrain of Brothers of Italy and Hymn of the Piave...
...Communist has become too much of a luxury," said ex-Comrade Angelo Bardi. "It isn't only the party dues [200 lire a month], it's all the contributing that comes afterwards. Every day someone from the party comes begging for contributions-for L'Unita, for the funeral of persecuted citizens of some country I don't know, for help for jailed comrades, for comrades who have just got out of jail, or for a gift for Comrade Secchia [Italy's No. 3 Communist]. They solicit contributions for Indo-Chinese comrades, for Chinese guerrillas...
...Archbishop Cicognani's in Washington could probably be attributed to the differences in political climate between Italy and the U.S. L'Osservatore broke Vatican custom by publicizing the Pope's plea for clemency, and it did so immediately after Italy's Communist L'Unita (with the largest circulation in Italy) criticized the Pope's failure to intervene on behalf of the Rosenbergs. In all probability, L'Osservatore spoke with the critical Italian spring elections in mind, and for that reason reported the papal message as direct intervention...
That was a stopper. The artists, including Ballerina Galina Ulanova and Violinist David Oistrakh, packed their belongings and took a train in the direction of Moscow. Snarled Rome's Red L'Unita: "The offense to the Soviet artists is an outrage to culture." Said one departing musician: "The Italian government is very uneducated...