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...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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...