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Until recently, Duclos was supporting Thorez against the wing led by old André Marty, who favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from...
...world over tend to be conservative, or at least anti-collectivist, and French farm people more so than most. Yet when the French Communist Party began to lose votes in the cities, some months ago, its strength in the rural areas was still rising. Last week TIME Correspondent André Laguerre examined a rural area to see how the Communists were faring on the eve of next Sunday's local elections. He cabled...
...month political campaign. Cried he: "The future belongs to those who want to grasp it... ." At a by-election in the Canton of Isigny. Department of Calvados, the R.P.F. candidate polled 2,438 votes against a combined Socialist-Communist vote of only 909. Cabled TIME Correspondent André Laguerre...
Lily Pons fares no better: "The singing of a coloratura is a cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
...Strasbourg, French Communists heard Communist Deputy André Marty deplore the big sum the French Government planned to spend on the Sixth World Scout Jamboree (30,000 Boy Scouts are scheduled to encamp on the meadows at Moisson, northwest of Paris, in mid-August). The $956,000 allocated for the meeting, said Marty, could better be spent for recreation centers. "Existentialists" with reactionary backing, he added, were trying to demoralize French youth...