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Walls and sidewalks in Paris' famed Red Belt (workers' suburbs) were scribbled with bold white slogans: Thorez à Paris!-"Thorez back to Paris!" Thus French Communists high-pressured the Gaullist Government for return of the Communist Party's prewar secretary, the onetime coal miner who is now an exile in Moscow...
...Maurice Thorez had been the ideological father of Leon Blum's Popular Front. In the middle '30s Frenchmen called him "the French Stalin." During the period of the Russo-German pact, he had condemned France's "imperialist" war against Nazi Germany. When the Daladier Government outlawed the French Communist Party in September 1939, Thorez deserted from the Army, went underground...
...have condemned "Soviet treason." They could remain in the Chamber. Most of the others had organized a French Workers' & Farmers' Party. That was held to be a mere subterfuge; they were ousted. André Marty, fiery Communist expert on the French Army, had disappeared. Deputy Leader Maurice Thorez had deserted from the Army. They both lost their citizenship...
...Courts prepared to try 44 Communist former Deputies on minor charges of "illegal activities," punishable by not more than two years in jail and loss of civic rights. Incensed was Moscow when major charges of "treasonable activities," punishable by death, were lodged against nine Communist former Deputies, including Maurice Thorez, the French Earl Browder...
...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...