Word: ex-communist
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Reims last week occurred the first important street battle between gangs of French Reds & Pinks and gangs of French Whites of the new anti-Communist Party founded by tough, barrel-chested ex-Communist Jacques Doriot, Mayor of St. Denis, a Paris suburb, and a French Deputy. In 1932 he visited Russia, conferred with Moscow leaders, returned to France vigorously critical of Stalin, and was therefore expelled from the French Communist Party. Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with...