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Concern over an Italian-led Euro-Communist axis surged last week when Berlinguer interrupted his campaigning at home for a two-day visit to Paris which the Communist daily L 'Humanité heralded as "historique!" As Marchais's guest, the Italian leader once more proved that he is a campaigner to be reckoned with: his 47-minute speech in barely accented French to a rally of 70,000 Gallic comrades was a tour de force. Marchais for an hour had delivered a predictable tirade damning such enemies of the right as French President Giscard d'Estaing...
Long plagued by an image of gray stolidity, the French Communist Party has lately been going all out to acquire a more human look. The party newspaper, L'Humanité, has taken to dressing up its dreary polemics with color pictures for weekend editions. The staid old Paris Communist headquarters, with its fortress-like steel doors, has been abandoned for a new glass-fronted building, designed by Brazilian Communist-sympathizer Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia. But nowhere has the new look been more evident than in the party's annual Festival of Humanity...
...embarrassed by two events in the East bloc: the Polish riots and the Leningrad trials. In each instance the party was highly critical. Traditionally conservative and doctrinaire, the French party was once so slavishly obedient to Moscow that its official newspaper, L'Humanité, described the Soviet repression of Hungary in 1956 under the incredible headline BUDAPEST SMILES AMONG THE RUINS. Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet, 65, the French Communists are seeking to recast their image. Other party stalwarts are helping out. In December...
When the Russian tanks rumbled in, that hope evaporated. For the first time since its founding in 1920, the French Communist Party denounced the Soviet line. "The French Party expresses its surprise and reprobation," bannered L'Humanité, the Paris Communist paper. The Italian Communist Party, which won more than a quarter of the votes in the last national elections, expressed "grave dissent" with the Russians. In fact, every major Communist party in Western Europe turned its back on Moscow. That may turn out to be a very wise move. If they retain their independence, the Communist parties...
...their commander, said in a broadcast from Hanoi: "The Army of Liberation and our people are fighting on all battlefields, from Ca Mau near the southern tip of South Viet Nam to Route 9 south of the Demilitarized Zone." Earlier in the week, however, France's L'Humanité printed an interview with Giap in which he was hardly inclined to compromise. Giap described the U.S. as an "impotent colossus" that had come to Paris only...