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...Communist boss is husky, eloquent Maurice Thorez, 45, onetime coal miner, who spent most of the war years in Moscow. Last week he turned his heaviest oratorical guns on the Gaullist-Socialist idea of a western bloc. Such a bloc, he cried, ''would be opposed by the other [eastern] bloc and lead toward new conflicts, toward a war of extermination with atomic bombs...
...consciousness of political power charged the proceedings with electric confidence. Under the watchful presidency of ex-miner Ebby Edwards, delegates barged through their business like a bulldozer through the brush. For the pressing problems currently besetting the Government there was tolerance and understanding. Even on the T.U.C.'s tenderest sore point-the Government's dilatory demobilization plan-delegates pulled their punches. This was their Government: it must get every chance...
...hard-rock miner insists that he personally saw his mother-in-law, stone deaf for years, recover her hearing. Clermont Roy, who says he saw two crippled children fully cured by the girl, claims that his own eight-year-old son, mute since birth, began to talk after visiting Pierrette. Said Mme. Philippe Coulombe: "I have just taken 20 steps down the street, when for a long time I have not been able to take two steps in my kitchen without my crutches...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...Cripple Creek, Colo., Herman Conrow Jr., 36, discharged from the Army in November, leased a gold mine. By last week he had struck it rich, taken out $25,000, was going strong, with nothing to lose-since on the "split-check" leasing plan, a miner invests only his time, surrenders half his take. Miner Conrow, too, had learned his trade before the war. Looking at the returned U.S. serviceman last week, his neighbors concluded that he, like other new small businessmen, was ignoring the "everything-for-the-boys" oratory, preferring to set his own course, toward his own goal...