Word: humanite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, L'Humanité was a day late with the news. The non-Communist Paris press had it from the government, which had it from its ambassador in Moscow, that French Communist Laurent Casanova had asked for four visas: one for himself, one for Maurice Thorez, one for Thorez' wife Jeannette Vermeersch, and one for a secretary. It was two years and five months since French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez had been struck down with brain hemorrhage and whisked off to Moscow for treatment; ever since, the air had been filled with reports of what wonders Soviet medicine...
...Floundering Days. Poor navigation was threatening to wreck the French Communist Party. Since the buoyant days of 1946, 1) party membership has been almost halved; 2) Communist support in the powerful C.G.T. labor organization is only a quarter of what it was; 3) the circulation of L'Humanité is down two-thirds; Ce Soir and half a dozen provincial dailies have folded. The party still has an elite of probably 30,000 hard-core Communists, but the rank & file have been gravely affected by the Moscow damning of two of their great heroes: Old Communist Andre Marty...
Onetime Poet Louis Aragon cravenly wrote three columns of self-criticism in L'Humanité. Sample: "Too often we admire indiscriminately the poetry, paintings and expressions of certain society . . . Thus the intellectuals of the militant proletariat may occasionally open the gate to counter-revolutionary bourgeois ideas...
...dwindling Communist Party, scrabbling for funds, decided that it could no longer support two daily newspapers in Paris. Ce Soir once (1946) had more circulation (602,000) than any other French paper of the time, but of late it had sunk to a lowly 80,000. L'Humanité, the morning paper, was also sharply down, but "L'Huma" is the certified mouthpiece of Communism in France. Last week Ce Soir announced that it was going out of business. Its editor, Author & Poet Louis Aragon, had an explanation of sorts: "American pressure . . . and the boycott of firms working...
...France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S. Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square. French Poet Paul Eluard's last thoughts before his death last week, according to a cable his daughter sent to Paul Robeson, were for the Rosenbergs. L'Humanité also ran an article by the Communist-line U.S. Author Howard Fast: "Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are good, honest, courageous people. They are innocent...