Word: curit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...progress two weeks. When French police arrived to enforce a court order requiring the strikers to vacate, the strike suddenly became a brutal reconnaissance in force for France's Communists and for Interior Minister Jules Moch's new, mobile Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (security police...
...covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
...Communists with flying fists. After the ushers separated the combatants, the Assembly killed, 404-186, a Communist demand for a full-dress debate on the Clermont-Ferrand affair. In effect, the vote was a vote of approval for Moch's new Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurit...