Word: thorez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismemberment of Germany unless "the German people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this bid for German support and apparent jettisoning of the French, party lines were transcended and French Communists stood with all other Frenchmen in their bitter denunciation of the Soviet Union. Previous to the Molotov speech, Harold Laski had, in an article in The Nation, sharply...
Left Bank. On the left bank of the Rhine, dismay and confusion marched in Communism's ranks. Thorez & comrades, who had campaigned, along with the rest of France, for a Ruhr detached from Germany, found themselves suddenly in clear opposition to Russia. Said one member of the French Politbureau: " 'It never rains but it pours' was not a proverb invented by Karl Marx, but as far as we are concerned, it might as well have been. After the constitutional rebuff, the near defeat at the elections, last week's slapping down in the Chamber...
...surprise, too, Andre LaGuerre, who drew the major assignment of analyzing the Party, its leaders, and its effect on the French, was received with open arms by Party leaders. He talked twice with Thorez, who insisted that he had never before granted an inter view. LaGuerre submitted a list of questions to Jacques Duclos, the Party's No. 2 man, and got his answers within 24 hours. Duclos also confirmed the fact that Thorez, not he, was the real boss of the Party...
...fruit of his and of the rest of the Paris bureau's labors arrived in Manhattan on schedule for writing and editing. Everything about the report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...
...Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...