Nikita Roncalli - Hutton Gibson

to click their heels and present their halberds. The silver
trumpets played Silveri’s Triumphal March, when the
Pope, in full apparel, descended into St. Peter’s escorted by
the Noble Guards. Behind that unchanged outward
appearance, however, something fundamental was rapidly
growing and would soon, very soon, bear its fruit.
These contacts with the Italian Communist party, as a first
result, obtain to the communists the scrapping of the
excommunication, of Pacellian memory. (Decree of
condemnation of communism.) In this way that red electorate,
held back at the polling station by the problem of
conscience, will rush to swell the Italian Communist
Party’s votes. Especially women’s. In most Italian families,
the women are those who felt the most the bridle of Pius
XII’s excommunication, and have remained, due to
ancestral complexes, aligned and covered with the
directives of their parish. John XXIII has promptly
consented to Palmiro Togliatti’s well-calculated request. It
will be seen in the tremendous advance of the Italian
Communist party in subsequent elections, and in that leftist
policy that will bring Italy to the reality of today. And a
grateful Italian communism makes itself readily available
to the Giovannean policy. The Italian Communist party will
precede His Holiness’ Secretary of State in paving the way
for the historical dialogue between the Vatican and the
Socialist countries of the East, starting with Soviet Russia.
Roncalli implements his revolution without upsetting
public opinion. He operates, in politics, so that his left hand
ignores what his right hand does. While on the one hand, in
bland little speeches of circumstance he voices his grief for