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Hardest hit of all were the Communists, who lost more than 2,000,000 of the 5,500,000 votes they got in 1956. Their defeat was furthered by adroit gerrymandering and the coalitions that non-Communist parties formed against strong Communist candidates. Party Boss Maurice Thorez squeaked back into the Assembly, but his wife, Jeanette Vermeersch, was beaten by a Gaullist in one of Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This...
Slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of ailing Red Boss Maurice Thorez and herself Communist candidate for the National Assembly, spoke with passion for two hours. She railed against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering...
...Gaullist sweep buried the opposition. De Gaulle won even in the virulently Red district of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. In Louviers, whose mayor is bitterly anti-Gaullist Pierre Mendės-France, 69% of the ballots were marked...
...crowd of 300 journalists, art lovers and notables waited in a school courtyard in the small French Riviera town of Vallauris. The master, as usual unimpressed by ceremony, arrived dressed in faded corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result...
Picasso's attachment to the Communist Party has been subject to fits and starts. He let the party make his Peace Dove (actually a lithograph of a white fantail pigeon Henri Matisse had given him as a present) a propaganda symbol the world over, and Communist Boss Maurice Thorez is a frequent and conspicuous guest at Picasso's villa at Cannes. But when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they...