Word: moche
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...group of former guerrillas tore down a steel tube scaffolding. They broke it up, then distributed the bars to demonstrators, who brandished them defiantly. The paraders were excited by their leaders, who made angry speeches against the government and the "murderer," Jules Moch, Socialist Minister of the Interior and head of the police. Among those who listened were many women. One wore a bulky fur coat. Most shivered as the raw mist bit through their worn clothes...
...yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...Bergougnan rubber factory, where a Communist-fomented sit-in strike had been in progress two weeks. When French police arrived to enforce a court order requiring the strikers to vacate, the strike suddenly became a brutal reconnaissance in force for France's Communists and for Interior Minister Jules Moch's new, mobile Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (security police...
...acid, and ball bearings flung by slingshots. The acid fumes temporarily blinded 113 police, but only enraged the rest. Swinging rifle butts, they drove the strikers into the streets. In three hours it was all over. At least 450 people had been injured, and 50 arrested. Said one of Moch s tight-lipped men: "We wouldn't have been nearly so tough if they hadn't tried to blind us." But, for all the fury, nobody was killed...
Fists & Votes. Next day fighting broke out again-this time in the National Assembly. But with fists only. While Communist deputies chanted "Assassin," Moch made his report. He charged that the battle at Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell...