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...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...
Crack to Chasm? For this week the party ordered Reggio Emilia's Red-run labor unions to go out on a 24-hour "anti-traitors general strike." When support for the strike appeared dubious, it was postponed. The party organ, Unita, cried: "For every two traitors who leave, 2,000 new members join...
...news vendor's tireless efforts brought their reward. For four years running, Communist provincial headquarters had acclaimed him "Tuscany's Best Unita Salesman," and he had been named inspector over all other Unita salesmen in the Borgo San Lorenzo area. Monti's fine record even led party headquarters to take a tolerant attitude when early this year he failed for the first time to turn in promptly the proceeds of his Unita sales...
...weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...