Rome

The CC of the VKP(b) is indignant over the villainous attempt by monsters of the human race on the life of the leader of the working class and all the working people of Italy, our beloved Comrade Togliatti.

The CC of the VKP(b) is saddened that Comrade Togliatti's friends did not succeed in protecting him from the vile attack from around the corner.

In the name of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Iosif Stalin

July 14, 1948.

Pravda. 1948. July 15.