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...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...
Even though L'Humanité was back on the streets last week, it still had plenty of troubles. In France, where all newspapers have been losing circulation, no group has dropped more drastically than the Communist dailies. L'Humanité alone, once at a peak of 600,000, has fallen to an alltime low of 190,000. Ce Soir, the party's afternoon paper, is down to less than one-third of its 1947 circulation of 433,000. There are also signs that the new Communist "get-tough" policy for France leaves little room for weak papers...