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Reported Dead: Maurice Thorez, 51, France's Communist boss until last November, when he suffered a stroke and was flown to Russia for medical treatment. Persistent rumors from Warsaw and Stock holm say Thorez died in Moscow. The French Communists deny the reports, claim that Thorez is, in fact, getting better. Possible reasons for keeping Thorez' death secret: 1) the problem of his succession in the French Communist Party; 2) reflection on Russian surgery...
Communist Party, bossed by shrewd, tubby Jacques Duclos, 54, who took over when Top Red Maurice Thorez, 51, suffered a stroke last fall and went to Moscow for treatment. The Communists campaigned against the U.S., NATO, rearmament, inflation. In the last Assembly, the Communists held 167 seats out of 621, more than any other party...
From his "rest home" in Moscow came word that French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, partly paralyzed from a stroke two months ago, was able to walk a few steps without help. From Rome it was announced that Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, recovering from a brain operation, had boarded a train for Moscow and some of the same salubrious Soviet atmosphere...
...Into Thorez' place went Jacques Duclos, shrewdly jovial, a skilled parliamentarian. Duclos, leader of the Red deputies in the chamber, could be hard as nails-as he proved when he headed the Red underground during the Nazi occupation. Or-and this is particularly important now-he could be as smoothly persuasive as an insurance salesman...
...fledgling Lecoeur, 39 years old, came a summons. Last week, when the Thorez plane took off, it carried an extra passenger. Ruddy-faced Auguste Lecoeur was off to Moscow for the soul-searing and trial by fire that precedes leadership of Communism's fifth column in France...