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...speech. He also had to tackle a serious jurisdictional problem that flared up when Italy regained control of Trieste, and threatens to heat up further if Yugoslavia and Russia come closer to a reconciliation. The Trieste Communist Party has a heavy Slovene membership, and its fiery boss, Vittorio Vidali, is resisting Togliatti's efforts to take over the Trieste party now that Trieste is Italian again. Togliatti devoted part of his May Day speech to telling the Slovene Reds in effect that they must submit to Rome...
...plainly more than "indisposition," as Togliatti's own doctor let slip some days later. "It must not be forgotten, the state of tension of the honorable Togliatti on that day," said Dr. Mario Spallone, and added, as if trying to put all the blame on recalcitrant Comrade Vidali : "This tension was due to a very special political situation." Imperial Procession. For several days, Togliatti could not be moved. Then, surrounded by an imperial procession of bodyguards, doctors and attendants, he was borne on a stretcher to a special railroad car. Overnight the train moved slowly to Rome. An ambulance...
...lived, Carlo Tresca could have wielded great anti-Communist influence in postwar Italy. But on the night of Jan. 11, 1943, as he stepped from an office building into the wartime brownout of New York streets, a gunman killed him. Two days before, Tresca had told his friends: "Vidali is in town. That means there is a job to be done. I smell the stink of death." Police sought Vidali-Contreras for questioning, but could not find...
...January 1947 Vidali-Contreras left Mexico for Russia, and a few weeks later turned up in Trieste. Until the Cominform attack on Tito, he was a loyal Tito man. But last week, to a meeting of Trieste pro-Cominform Communists he announced: The fight [against Tito] will be continued to the end." Another Trieste Communist official put it more bluntly: "This means that anyone among us, if he has the chance, should remove Tito...
...wind was from the West, where Vidali was, Tito, like Tresca, might be able to "smell the stink of death...