Word: togliatti
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Palmiro Togliatti had listened with a thin smile flickering across his face. As Nenni finished, Togliatti threw his arms around him and they clinched in a cheek-kissing embrace...
Socialist Boss Pietro Nenni and Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spoke. Nenni lashed out against the monarchy as the greatest supporter of Fascism, called on the Italian people to take up arms against the dangerous spirit of reaction it represented. There was a blizzard of paper scraps on each of which was written "Abasso la borghesia!" (Down with the bourgeoisie...
...Then Togliatti spoke. He said: "We will never allow Italy and the Soviet proletariat to see between them a barrier such as reactionary groups have vainly attempted to construct. . . . Our Soviet comrades await from us proof of our good faith, and we must conduct with the greatest energy the fight against the Fascist bureaucracy in our ministries. . . ." The Cabinet crisis continued...
...political criminality is in part an accident of place. The Germans were also gloating over two "criminals" last week. They were Giuseppe Togliatti, brother of Italy's No. 1 Communist, Palmiro Togliatti, and Mario Badoglio, son of Marshal Badoglio. The Germans threatened to kill them (and 38 others) in reprisal for the execution of Pietro Caruso, Rome's Fascist police chief (see below...
Shrewd Palmiro Togliatti, Russian-trained leader of Italy's Communists, and cautious Pietro Nenni, secretary general of the Socialists, sat down chummily, hatched an "alliance" of their two parties-a new version of the Popular Front. The surprise move gave them Italy's biggest bloc of voters, bigger than the important Christian Democrats (Catholic Centrist Party...