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...great "Red" hunt was ordered and by last week many Communist deputies and other prominent French Communists (plus many obscure ones) had been arrested, indicted or were being hunted. The most prominent ones were still in hiding, however. French Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez, sent to the front with an engineer regiment, got a 24-hour furlough, took French leave and made a separate peace. Colorful Andre Marty, who once led a French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice...
...enough Left to join with Communists; Leftist Daladier, swinging further Left, plunged in. Said he, "I represent the petite bourgeoisie and I declare that the middle class and the working class are natural allies." He marched in the big Popular Front demonstration of July 14, 1935, between Communists Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, gave the clenched-fist Communist salute, swore fidelity to the Popular Front at the Bastille...
...district leaders of the French Communist Party who were summoned to Paris recently by No. 1 French Communist Maurice Thorez (TIME, March 28) returned to their homes last week primed to execute his orders: "Arouse the masses...
...week the workers appeared in an unorganized way to be again trying to drive and lead Léon Blum, who now heads his second Popular Front Cabinet and was encountering firm opposition last week in the Senate. The workers were by no means under the leadership of Communist Thorez, but he bid violently for that leadership last week by demanding a nationwide General Strike...
...veterans, staged a riot 4,000 strong along the Seine, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, and four Paris policemen were stabbed with knives. Soon afterward 3,000 leaders of Communist groups in all parts of France were summoned to Paris for a conference with French Red No. 1, Maurice Thorez. The 3,000 arrived shouting "Open the frontier to Spain!" and "Thorez in Power!" Orator Thorez instructed them to incite the French masses "against their enemies, both without and within...