Word: central
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...
Obediently, Thorez read it to the comrades of the Central Committee...
Weasel words had burrowed into the syntax of this passage, but the implication was clear. A further statement from the Central Committee made it clearer: "The people of France place themselves resolutely, and in all circumstances, in the camp of the Soviet Union and her heroic army...
...Thorez was "a candidate for the post formerly held in this country, when occupied by a foreign army, by a certain Pierre Laval." The Assembly, of which Thorez is a member, summoned him to explain himself. He repeated almost word for word the statement he had made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence for him: "Je ficherais le camp [I would beat it]." Thorez...
...party's Political Control Commission, a body formed some months ago after Rumania's Pauker and Bulgaria's Dimitrov had castigated the French comrades, at a Cominform meeting, for "bourgeois tendencies." The commission has become the most powerful organ in the French apparatus, outranking the Central Committee and even its Politburo. Maurice Thorez is not a member of the Control Commission...