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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Palace Doors | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Palace Doors | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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