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Foreign Affairs continued in the hands of Popular Republican Georges Bidault. A "brain trust" of four Ministers of State included Communist Maurice Thorez, Socialist Vincent Auriol, Popular Republican Francisque Gay, Rightist Louis Jacquinot...
...Communist boss is husky, eloquent Maurice Thorez, 45, onetime coal miner, who spent most of the war years in Moscow. Last week he turned his heaviest oratorical guns on the Gaullist-Socialist idea of a western bloc. Such a bloc, he cried, ''would be opposed by the other [eastern] bloc and lead toward new conflicts, toward a war of extermination with atomic bombs...
...Gaulle, whom the leftist Franc-Tireur recently cartooned as holding the "Apple of Discord" (see cut), are for a new constitution. In any case, if France votes as she did last week, General de Gaulle will remain at the head of the Government, supported by Bidault and Blum. Maurice Thorez' Communists and Edouard Herriot's Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist) will be in divided opposition...
...week before, the strongly socialistic Mouvement de Liberation National, France's No. 2 Resistance group, had also met in Paris, roundly rejected a fusion with F.N. Basic reason: distrust of the F.N.'s Communist complexion. M.L.N. delegates assailed the new Party line laid down by Maurice Thorez, France's No. 1 Communist, who recently returned from wartime exile in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 11). Thorez had called for the disbanding of all Resistance militia, even Communist armed bands who had seized authority in some localities. "Public security," he said, "should be assured by the regular police...
...pretty girls collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted a program for French Communists in the next few months...