Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Les Halles, "the belly of Paris," 250 market women left their stalls last week, crowded into a schoolroom where a plainly dressed woman, obviously and proudly pregnant, talked about food and coal. Her tone was conversational, her words easy to understand. She knew what interested them, did Jeannette Vermeersch. Listening to her was like a chat around a kitchen table. It was hard to realize that Jeannette Vermeersch might be the next First Lady of France...
Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such a wide variety of roles as the "Champeen Roper" in "Rodeo," the "Golden Slave" in "Scheherazade," the "Baron" in "Gaite Parisienne" and in a variety of classic roles ranging from "Les Sylphydes" to the "Nuteracker," and in such modern classical roles as "Danses Concertantes" and "Mozartina...
Chubby, chipper Jacques Duclos, one-time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Before the French Communist Executive Committee Papa Duclos pitched into Comrade Togliatti for arguing that Trieste must remain "Italian" rather than become Yugoslav, as Comrade Tito insists. Meanwhile, Les Cahiers published an article on Trieste by Stephane Mitrovitch, Yugoslav veteran of the old Comintern. Charged Mitrovitch: "Our Italian comrades . . . [are guilty of] political and theoretical deviations . . . erroneous conceptions . . . [that reinforce] reactionary forces in Italy and the world...