The Italian Communists weren't saying publicly what the latest Moscow orders called for, but clearly it was not sweetness & light. In the Italian Parliament last week the Reds were both edgy and truculent. Palmiro Togliatti started things off in the Chamber of Deputies by complaining that his name and those of 39 other Italians had been included in a list of leading Communists issued by the U.S. House of Representatives.* The House, he shouted angrily, had been elected by only 4% of the U.S. population—"the rest being Negroes."
Next day, the temper increased. Communist Deputy Fausto Gullo, a...
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