Italian Communist Attacks Marshall Plan. Luigi Longo, Italy's No.2 communist, seen as he addressed an election rally for the popular front (communist-socialist bloc) at Sesto San Giovanni, near Milan, April 3. The town is known as "little stalingrad." only 2,000 of the industrial population of 40,000 attended. Longo attacking the Marshall plan said "without the Marshal plan we could give work to Italy's two million unemployed." April 27, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)