Word: thorez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Violence flared throughout the country. In Toulouse, a Gaullist at a Communist meeting was thrown from a theater balcony into the orchestra and died. Comrade Maurice Thorez himself was involved in a bang-up brawl. At a Communist rally, he invited a foolhardy heckler, Socialist Jacques Karaimsky, to come on up and say his say on the platform. Karaimsky did: "Perhaps you have forgotten that . . . Moscow used to feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried...
...Adieu, Maurice." Moscow, for instance, is known to be worried about certain tendencies in the French party. Maurice Thorez, the official leader, did not go to Miszlakowice. He leads the wing of the party which has stressed independence of Moscow, wants collaboration-temporarily-with democratic parties and wants to hang on to those 5,500,000 Communist votes...
Until recently, Duclos was supporting Thorez against the wing led by old André Marty, who favored a tough, out & out revolutionary line. Duclos saw the handwriting on the wall just in time. He asked to be sent to Poland; the party also sent Etienne Fajon, a Marty man, to watch him. For Thorez, there was literally handwriting on a wall last week. Scrawled outside Pere Lachaise Cemetery were the words Adieu, Maurice Thorez. Que Dieu ait son dme (May God have his soul), Marty's tough line will lose voters, but it will free the party from...
...boosts for the workers - which made it even harder for the Government to hold the line against inflation. But the Communists, who had used the strike as a battering ram against tenacious little Ramadier, had not managed to topple the Government. June 7, a secretary of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez told a friend: "In two weeks we shall be back in the Government." Last week, he said: "Now I am going away on a six weeks' vacation...
...Replied Thorez: "The General Federation of Labor has been overrun, or is in danger of being overrun, by Trotskyist elements. In order to prevent this movement from getting out of hand, we decided last night to support the workers' demands...