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...revolutionaries-Laurent Casanova, Andre Marty, et al.-took a licking when they tried a campaign of insurrection. Thorez stood his ground, waited for a signal from Moscow. Would Moscow order a detente (letup) or a bagarre (showdown...
...Thorez and Duclos, he said: "Really, the achievements of the French flyers on the Russian front were not exactly terrific." Thorez, who had sat out the war in Russia, agreed. So did Duclos. Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members. One of them, Lieut. Alex Laurent, who had been wounded and decorated in Russia, came bounding up to the group, and shoved Duclos aside, saying, "You're too little, I won't bother with you." Then Laurent measured burly Maurice Thorez. "Your patriotism," he said, "was too discreet for my taste, anyhow." Thereupon...
...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
...Hero Laurent was finally overpowered, ejected, whisked home in a car. His wife spent the night putting compresses on his contused head. Next day, when the peacemaking major called the embassy to apologize, Bogomolov, unscathed, was still shaking with laughter. "Wasn't it fun, though?" he guffawed. "That dear old vodka...
According to one story going the rounds last week, Maurice Thorez hired a make-up man to conceal the damage to his face-to save himself embarrassment in the National Assembly. Hero Laurent, interviewed in his barracks, commented: "I used to know this damned vodka rather well, but I'm no longer in the habit of drinking it. I must have been bien soûl [pretty plastered], and somebody must have said something I didn't like. So I hit him. Then in return they beat me up; I guess they had to suppress me, after...