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...informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...
French cheers were less solid than British, French dissent more furious and determined. Snarled Communist Boss Maurice Thorez: "Hypocritical phrases and lies . . . Today there rises the ghost of the new war . . We are now chained to the war chariot of the American billionaires." L'Humanité shrilled: "The war pact is signed...
With a fat, 28-page anniversary issue, Manhattan's Daily Worker last week marked its 25th birthday as the oldest Communist U.S. daily. There were greetings from such sister publications as France's L'Humanité, Britain's Daily Worker and Poland's Trybuna Ludu. (Russia's Pravda tactfully refrained from sending any message.) But there was no office celebration, and little to celebrate. Circulation was at a low 24,700 daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism...
...star act was assigned to Marcel Cachin, 79-year-old director of L'Humanité. As dean of the Assembly he made the inaugural address. Almost his first remark was a reference to Eisenhower as "that illustrious American soldier." When he quoted Eisenhower's tribute to the French underground, even the Rightists clapped...
...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...