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...Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...
...going to go right on being tough. "A few isolated voices in our own ranks," thundered Maurice Thorez, "have echoed enemy noises. Some have taken opportunist positions, become liquidators, and even repeated the worst lies of our adversaries." Stalin should not be castigated too severely, explained L'Humanité Boss Etienne Fajon, one of the Moscow pilgrims, for he had only "used unworthy methods for a just and victorious struggle...
...When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended on Hénin-Liétard, rushed to the stage and, to the accompaniment of Communist harpies crying "Kill him! Hang him!", beat Lecoeur to a bloody pulp. Editorialized L'Humanité: "The renegade Lecoeur got the reception he deserved." Editorialized Paris' conservative Figaro; "Such fury can have only one explanation: fear...
...known as the contradictoire, in which a candidate is required to hear out and then answer needling questions from the floor. While he sat in enforced silence, a reedy-voiced neo-Fascist accused Mendès of changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending the Indo-China war. Mendès-France gave as good...
...Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed in the crusade against socialism...