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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...
...Cachin speech was the more notable because he is the most "regular" of French Communists, always voicing the Moscow line; everybody in the Chamber knew that Marcel Cachin had not had an idea of his own for 40 years. Cachin said...
...Homeric Heroes." A few moments after Cachin had finished, Edouard Herriot was re-elected president of the Assembly. In his acceptance speech he went right on from where Cachin had left off-just as the Communists hoped he and millions of others would do. Russia and the U.S., said Herriot, "face each other in helmeted defiance, two Homeric heroes." The implication: their quarrel is not Western Europe's-Western Europe should become a third force that would strive for a reconciliation between the giants...
...While Cachin had been speaking, the Moscow radio was broadcasting that "the nomination of Acheson offers the possibility of a reorientation of American foreign policy," and the Moscow press was playing up an appeal for a Truman-Stalin meeting...
...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...