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...usual, L'Humanité was a day late with the news. The non-Communist Paris press had it from the government, which had it from its ambassador in Moscow, that French Communist Laurent Casanova had asked for four visas: one for himself, one for Maurice Thorez, one for Thorez' wife Jeannette Vermeersch, and one for a secretary. It was two years and five months since French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez had been struck down with brain hemorrhage and whisked off to Moscow for treatment; ever since, the air had been filled with reports of what wonders Soviet medicine...
...Maurice Thorez, leader of France's Communists, was returning none too soon. Cried Communist Poet Louis Aragon...
Sunk in Gloom. The French party, once the most threatening in the West, has become disorganized during the long absence of Maurice Thorez (who was so ill in Moscow last week that he could not appear for Stalin's funeral), and divided over the recent purges of two of its stalwarts, André Marty and Charles Tillon. In Paris, Acting Boss Jacques Duclos put on a black hat and black overcoat when he got the word of Stalin's death, and led France's straggly delegation to Moscow for the funeral. Somehow, as he climbed into...
Many a devout French Red believes that if only Maurice Thorez would come back from Russia, things would get better. Thorez, party boss in France, suffered a stroke in 1950, went to Russia for treatment, has not been seen in France since; many a non-Communist believes that he is dead. Last week L'Huma published a picture of a sickly Maurice Thorez with wife (see cut), claiming that it had been taken in Russia on Feb. 1 of this year. To skeptical Frenchmen, neither the photography nor the claim proved anything-except that Moscow wants the French faithful...
...also been treating ailing Communist bigwigs from abroad-Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitrov, who died suddenly in 1949 after being linked with Marshal Tito; Marshal Choibalsan. Premier of the Sovietized Outer Mongolian People's Republic, who died last year; and France's Communist Boss Maurice ("Dear Maurice") Thorez, who has been wasting away in a Soviet sanatorium since November 1950 while his comrades back home announce periodically that Soviet medicine has done wonders in treating...