Word: humanit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the front page of Paris' Communist L'Humanité was spread a message from Red-smocked Painter Pablo Picasso: "The hours count. The minutes count. Do not let this crime against humanity take place." Above it was a macabre drawing of two electric chairs in which, side by side, sat the Rosenbergs, holding hands. Across France they were portrayed as "peace partisans," condemned because they opposed Washington plans to war on Russia. In Italy they were "Gli Innocenti" (The Innocents), whose two young children (5 and 9) would be made orphans, and Rome's Communist...
...ended with the arrest of Jacques Duclos, No. 2 man of French Communism and in charge of the party while Thorez is away. To make matters worse, Marty used Duclos' month in jail to carry out a quick, private purge of the French Communist paper L'Humanité; among other staffers, he fired Duclos' girl friend...
Paris' Communist L'Humanité, chagrined over France's bad showing (eighth place) in the Olympics, found an alibi. After scanning the French team roster, it discovered that capitalist weaklings had gummed the works in Helsinki. L'Human-ité's excuse for France's flop: ''Of 275 team members . . . there were only 28 workers and four peasants." Undoubtedly the correct Commie line...
...Humanité the Parisian Communist newspaper, beat the drums. Go on strike! it urged the faithful, protest the jailing of Jacques Duclos! And incidentally, wheedled L'Humanité protest the jailing of the paper's own Editor Andre Stil! The big day was Wednesday, designated for a one-day strike of the Red-led C.G.T. (Confederation Generate du Travail), which used to have 6,000,000 members but now has only a third as many. Expecting an exemplary show of violence, L'Huma published medical advice on what to do for riot injuries, e.g., bleeding from...
Even L'Humanité did not claim any success for Martyr Duclos' strike. In its pre-strike advice, it had failed to recommend any solace for wounds of the spirit...