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...comrades obliged. They organized the Ridgway riots (TIME, June 9), called a general strike of 2,000,000 Red-led workers. Both were disastrous flops. National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, France's No. 1 Communist, was tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there; this audacious move so startled his lieutenants that not one of them in the National Assembly has risen to invoke parliamentary immunity for Duclos. The comrades were confused: they hardly knew whether to proclaim Duclos' martyrdom or denounce him for stupidity...
...edge his way back to the party line. In a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, he announced that he had been "in error" when he recently proposed a time-limit ultimatum to the Communists in Korea. He explained that he had been enlightened by General Ridgway's report that the United Nations lacked the strength to make it stick. Another possible explanation: Kefauver's recent chat with Harry Truman. Two days later he headed back to the hustings in his chartered Lockheed Lodestar, catching badly needed catnaps aloft with the aid of a sleeping mask...
Paris' tough police force, bruised and angered by Communism's May 28 Ridgway riots, made a shocking discovery last week. Two of the rioters whom they locked up and manhandled were Catholic priests in workmen's clothes. Abbés Louis Bouyer, 35, and Bernard Cagne, 28, are ordained members of the Mission de Paris; like 85 other French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production...
...Paris, the abbés last week told their story. "Faithful to our connection with the working world, we found ourselves with everyday friends, Communists or not, Christians or not, [who] wanted to express in spite of government restrictions . . . hopes which can be translated by the following words: 'Ridgway in France means...
...Thorez is in Russia "for his health"), languished in prison, charged with threatening the internal security of the state, but able to see a liberal number of visitors. In the presence of his lawyers, he was questioned by a magistrate for 3½ hours about his part in the Ridgway riots a fortnight ago. They wanted to know what he was doing in a car equipped with short-wave radio, pistol and blackjack...