Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star act was assigned to Marcel Cachin, 79-year-old director of L'Humanité. As dean of the Assembly he made the inaugural address. Almost his first remark was a reference to Eisenhower as "that illustrious American soldier." When he quoted Eisenhower's tribute to the French underground, even the Rightists clapped...
...crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
...Marcel Cachin, all smiles, bowed out the correspondents. With his farewell handshake he said: "It was really a great pleasure to have you here. I know we are all working for peace, in France and the world...
...time in the National Assembly. But with fists only. While Communist deputies chanted "Assassin," Moch made his report. He charged that the battle at Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell upon Communists with flying fists. After the ushers separated...
Cocos shook their fists, called their opponents "American lackeys." A group of anti-Reds retorted by singing The Volga Boatmen. When Cachin left the chairman's seat, the second oldest member, 75-year-old Maurice Viollette, was hustled forward to take his place. But a cordon of Reds barred...