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When Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie was fired last April as head of France's Atomic Energy Commission, 13 fellow members protested. "We wish to assure M. Joliot-Curie," they said,."that in spite of this measure he retains our entire confidence and our profound attachment...
Last week one of the 13 so profoundly attached to the deposed Red stepped into his job. Socialist Francis Perrin, co-worker of Joliot-Curie's at the Collège de France, was appointed by the government, nosing out Jean Thibaud, director of the Institute of Atomic Physics at Lyon and member of the right-wing UDSR party. At the same time, the middle-of-the-road government, which is trying to carry atomic fission on both its shoulders, dropped Joliot-Curie's fellow-traveling wife Irene from the Atomic Commission. This was supposed to appease...
...Paris, when Communist Scientist-Professor Frédéric Joliot-Curie walked into the Collège de France auditorium for a lecture on atomic physics, he was greeted with a volley of catcalls, stink bombs and firecrackers. By the time the cops arrived, the explosive students had disappeared...
...Joliot-Curie, French atom scientist, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. One delegate to get through was Pablo Picasso, Spanish-born painter. "C'est terrible" cried Picasso, describing the thorough security screening of congress delegates arriving on cross-channel steamers...
...Maurice Thorez. 2. Jacques Duclos. 3. Frederic Joliot-Curie. 4. Leon Mauvais. 5. Marcel Cachin...