Word: unita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader, arrived in Rome last week, the Communist newspaper L'Unita printed his photograph upside down. It was no mistake, and with a little helpful prodding from L'Unita, most readers got the point. In 1945, after Italian Partisans executed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, they hanged the pair upside down in Milan...
Around the chamber, Italy's legislators sat tense and silent as the solemn Premier asked formal approval of his new, slightly reshuffled cabinet. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti beat a nervous finger tattoo on his desktop. The party's L'Unita that morning had threatened: "The opposition will know how to ram De Gasperi's lies and provocations down his throat...
...freewheeling, flexible tactics in his pursuit of power. Many Communist workers and peasants understand little of Marx's ideology and are permitted deviations (e.g., open attachment to the Roman Catholic Church) which might mean a purge in more tightly disciplined Communist Parties. But, proclaimed the Red Party newspaper Unita last week, "there is a need to eliminate . . . the spirit of indifference and easy living...