Word: stil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that Hemingway should necessarily have received the award at an earlier time. Churchill and Faulkner certainly deserved Committee recognition as much. Stil, it's about time they gave it to him," he added...
...work, the biggest union of them all, the Communist-led C.G.T., suddenly called off its effort to prolong the strike that had paralyzed France for three weeks. Two hours later, the gate of gloomy Fresnes Prison outside Paris opened, and out walked five top French Communists (including André Stil, managing editor of L'Humanité). They had been held for months awaiting trial on charges of conspiring against France's military security; now, without new evidence or new arguments, they were set free...
...Humanité the Parisian Communist newspaper, beat the drums. Go on strike! it urged the faithful, protest the jailing of Jacques Duclos! And incidentally, wheedled L'Humanité protest the jailing of the paper's own Editor Andre Stil! The big day was Wednesday, designated for a one-day strike of the Red-led C.G.T. (Confederation Generate du Travail), which used to have 6,000,000 members but now has only a third as many. Expecting an exemplary show of violence, L'Huma published medical advice on what to do for riot injuries, e.g., bleeding from...
...years that André Stil, 31, a onetime schoolteacher, has been editing France's top Communist daily L'Humanité, he has proved his qualifications for the job. This year he won a Stalin Prize for the first volume of his novel Le Premier Choc (The First Blow), glorifying French stevedores who end up sabotaging U.S. military shipments to France under the Atlantic Pact. Last week Editor Stil was doing even better work for the party. On the eve of General Ridgway's arrival in Paris to take over NATO's command, he proclaimed mass demonstrations...
...Paris police waited no longer. They roused Editor Stil out of his suburban house, popped him into jail for "inciting to public demonstrations, armed or otherwise." Undismayed, Stil smuggled stories out of jail, but his biggest story ("Ridg-way . . . has entered a Paris in a state of siege") was lost to his readers. At 4:30 a.m. police descended on L'Humanité, confiscated 45,000 copies and seized others that had been distributed. The charge against Editor Stil was changed to a graver one (provocation to violence), with a maximum penalty of five years in prison...