Word: valdo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi, Deputies and former comrades who have put Italy ahead of Russia, dropped in last week on a small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly...
...Valdo and Aldo were still talking to the foundry workers when La Passionaria's gang, about 50 strong, marched into the courtyard chanting, "Get out of Italy, get out you traitors." Cucchi asked, "What do you want?" Someone in the mob shouted: "Let him have it boys...
...been seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow, gave it to them...
...police have been getting more and better tips than they ever got before. They are also finding arms dumped in open fields by comrades who want to get rid of them. The trend, the police guess, may just possibly stem from the party disaffection led by anti-Stalin Deviationists Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12). Mused a police officer: "Quite a few Communists seem to be having crises of conscience...
...chasm, with effects of unforeseeable consequence. The two heretics, it was said, would next issue a manifesto for an independent Italian Communist Party. Already, in the heart of the country's Red Belt, they had adherents. On Reggio Emilia's grey stone walks were chalked: "Long live Valdo and Aldo...