Word: cachin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 1948 Assembly convened, the oldest member, 78-year-old Marcel Cachin, presided as chairman, according to custom. It was not Cachin who had the non-Communists worried. It was slick, sly Comrade Jacques Duclos, who was the Assembly's first vice president last year...
...welcomed him. While pretty girls collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted a program for French Communists in the next few months...
...four years the French Senate counted among its members two Communists-Jean Clamamus and Marcel Cachin. In the rowdier Chamber of Deputies there were 72 Communists (TIME, Jan. 22). Last week Parliament got around to adding up the recantations which Premier Daladier demanded last October...
...Senators, M. Clamamus had condemned the Hitler-Stalin pact; that saved him his job. But M. le Senateur Cachin, aging Communist organizer and leader, member of the Communist International presidium at Moscow, had created a problem by doing and saying exactly nothing. Onetime professor of literature at Bordeaux, erudite and witty, never one to take to the streets for demonstration, this tired, stoop-shouldered veteran perhaps hoped he could save his job on the basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang...
Even so, the Senate hesitated to oust him. While the 60 Workers' & Farmers' deputies were being expelled without further fuss, a Senate committee decided to examine Senator Cachin to determine the extent of his "heresy" from patriotism. But the aged Senator, behind closed doors, refused stanchly to renounce the Communist International, so the committee had no choice but to vote unanimously to admit him no more to Luxembourg Palace...