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...Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street was thoroughly renamed, the mayor and his friends marched out to the football stadium to nail up a large wooden sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez," in honor of France's top Communist...
...Pascaud ordered a new sign put up. During the night that one too was pulled down. For five days and nights this maneuver was repeated. Last week the Communist mayor of Saint-Junien issued an order. Henceforth, he said, a municipal employee would hang a sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez" on the stadium each morning and take it down each night...
...health is poor (tuberculosis). He has traveled too far, and seen too much, and talked to too many people to have the rigidly closed type of mind required of a top party militant in time of war. He is one of those international Communist bosses-France's Maurice Thorez is another-who retain titular leadership mainly because their names still ring strongly in the world's ears...
...Maurice Thorez. 2. Jacques Duclos. 3. Frederic Joliot-Curie. 4. Leon Mauvais. 5. Marcel Cachin...
FRANCE Heeding the Master France's Communist leaders were busy carrying out orders. The Kremlin had spoken and Messrs. Thorez & Co. were dutifully sowing disruption far & wide. Main target was the U.S. military assistance program. To halt American arms shipments at ports, strikes were set off last week among longshoremen and transport workers...