"(Regarding the attempt on his life in 1948) When, a few days after his surgery, he was allowed to read the newspapers, Togliatti wanted to read the reports of the assassination attempt. He was struck by a nine-column headline in L'Unità: “Down with the government of civil war”. I remember his comment: if they had written “Down with the Home Secretary”, that would have been a request that was not only plausible but also acceptable! And in fact, it later emerged that in the Council of Ministers, which met urgently on the same day as the attack, the Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza and his undersecretary, a very young Aldo Moro, had raised the issue of the Interior Minister's resignation."