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...would not be safe to leave a bedridden Thorez in France. He could not easily be hidden underground if the French government decided to arrest the Red leaders. A sick man whose brain or nervous system was affected might talk. He had to be whisked out of the country...
Paris Said O.K. Harddriving, 50-year-old Maurice Thorez was a very sick man. In the month since he was struck down by a cerebral hemorrhage he had lain bedridden and partially paralyzed in his party-owned villa near Paris. He had frequent spells during which he blacked out. Five French specialists had agreed that Thorez seemed incurable and would probably never regain full possession of his faculties...
Moscow had sent Professor Sergei Davidenkov to attend Stalin's "very dear Comrade Thorez." Davidenkov disagreed with the French doctors, said that he would personally guarantee a cure in a Moscow clinic. Thorez' wife, Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch, took the hint and publicly asked the Soviet to treat her husband. The Red Foreign Ministry made the request official, the French government agreed and Thorez...
...Kremlin could congratulate itself on a delicate job, well-if brusquely-handled. It had reason to worry about Comrade Thorez. Long before the world heard of Titoism, the French party chief was quarreling with colleagues who accused him of harboring patriotic relics in his thinking. Thorez made unorthodox statements such as "One thing happened in Russia, another will happen in France. We'll have our French revolution in our own French fashion." Three times Thorez had been slapped down by the Kremlin for nationalist tendencies. Each time he took his reprimand like a good Kremlin offspring, welcoming the blows...
...line pushed their senior member, Andre Marty. But though Marty is a reliable fanatic, he is an inflexible fool save in his specialty: barricade-building and street fighting. Auguste Lecoeur, one of the party's four secretaries, emerged as the compromise choice. Though a graceless militant, he was Thorez' protege and, like Thorez, had come up through mine-union politics. But the last word, of course, was Moscow...