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...France's Jeannette Vermeersch, who started as a mill hand in Lille, lived for years with Maurice Thorez, eventually married him. She has the reputation of being a hard, intelligent party worker. Rank & filers like her for being a roughhewn, no-nonsense kind of a wife to Thorez (and to Communism), who can talk about the price of butter...
Like most Communists, she got around; her name popped up in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris. She learned seven languages. In Paris, she met handsome Maurice Thorez, with whom her friendship was more than political. In 1933, together with fellow Communists George Gheorghiu-Dej and Constantin Doncea, Pauker organized the Bucharest railway strike which ended in bloody fighting between the barricaded workers and government troops...
Meanwhile, amid these half-hidden battles, life has some compensations for Ana. Her two daughters Marie and Tania (both in their early 20s) are with her. She is very proud of Marie, who was educated in France under Maurice Thorez' care. Her son Vladimir is a lieutenant in the Rumanian army. Sometimes Ana leaves a meeting saying: "I must go now to get supper for my children...
Fajon, who lines up with, old Andre Marty and young Laurent ("Moscow's Eye") Casanova in opposition to Thorez, told the latter off, politely, at Gentilly. Making the first policy speech of the Central Committee meeting, Fajon said: "There is no such thing as national independence except when efforts toward that end repose on the might of the Soviet Union . . . Maurice Thorez was right when he said, months ago, that our rallying call should be national independence. But we must repeat that one of the major conditions of this independence is ... the cohesion of international Communist parties...
...Learn Too Well. Thorez had fallen this far-to the point where he could be sarcastically complimented by a party upstart-because he had learned the Moscow lesson too thoroughly. Of all the French leaders, he had the closest experience of Kremlin policy during World War II. He had been in Moscow when Stalin & Co. abandoned all but a vestige of Marxism in their propaganda and rallied the Russian people with outright Russian nationalism. Thorez, an apt pupil, tried the same line in France, with considerable political success. But the Kremlin views Communist nationalism as an unexportable commodity...