Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputy Jacques Duclos, Communist leader, the law awarded six sentences totaling 30 years and six fines totaling 18,000 francs ($540); to Deputy Andre Marty, famed Red, the law gave ten years in jail and a fine of 6,000 francs ($180); René Bellenger and Henri Barbe received lesser terms. All the sentences were for fomenting disorder...
...days later, at the Toulon Naval Prison, twelve Communist prisoners, armed mysteriously with picks and other handy tools, broke loose and liberated nearly 100 other prisoners. Marching around the prison they bawled: "Down with the Army!" "Long live Marty...
...Socialists (with three Peasant parties, two Labor parties and a Communist party) considerably outnumber the Pilsudski forces. They introduced a number of motions forbidden by Dictator Pilsudski, chief of which was a motion of lack of confidence in him. Had they succeeded in winning the motion, it would doubtless have done them no good; for Dictators have an irritating habit of putting themselves above the law. Still, it would have done Pilsudski small good had he been forced to ride roughshod over their veto. To avoid all such unpleasantness, he issued a decree closing the Sejm...
Skulking behind the pillars of a public building on the main square of Ravenna was one Loopoldo Missiroli, Communist, eying the passersby. It was night, but through the gloom Communist Missiroli descried the forms of Ettore Mury, Commander of the 81st Legion of the Fascist Militia, and Renzo Morigi, Secretary of the local Fascisti. As they strolled by, conversing earnestly, Communist Missiroli drew a gun, fired, wound- ing Signer Mury in the stomach, Signer Morigi...
Anguished but cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...