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...Month, Party Chieftain Palmiro Togliatti and his lieutenants pleaded anxiously for every reader to contribute generously. Their purpose: "to save the party press." But at the first rallies few Communists and even fewer readers seemed to be listening. The contribution boxes came back only half full. Complained L'Unita, Italy's biggest (est. circ. 390,000) Red daily: "Subscriptions began slowly in contrast with the rapid character of previous Press Month rallies...
Consternation spread through the village, and soon afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage...
...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...