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...Senators, five Cabinet members and five former Premiers -marched up the Champs-Elysees to lay a wreath under the Arc de Triomphe for the Hungarians. After the ceremony, thousands in the crowd, many so young that they carried schoolbooks, made off through the streets singing La Marseillaise and shouting "Thorez to the gallows...
...intellectual carnage inside French Communism was also devastating. While Thorez was praising the "exalting example of the Soviet Union" in shooting down Hungarians, Jean-Paul Sartre, playwright, novelist and grand high cockalorum of existentialism, spoke up for the disenchanted. Sartre, who once wrote one of the theater's most effective anti-Communist plays. Red Gloves, and then wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime...
Such was the confusion that pervaded France's Communist Party, long the most Stalinist outside the Iron Curtain, on the eve of its first congress since Khrushchev pulled the plug on Stalin last February. The workers, taught to regard pale ex-Miner Maurice Thorez as a French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though...
...three-man French Communist delegation returned from a visit to the Kremlin, the new line was laid down for this week's congress in Le Havre: the French Communist Party was going to go right on being tough. "A few isolated voices in our own ranks," thundered Maurice Thorez, "have echoed enemy noises. Some have taken opportunist positions, become liquidators, and even repeated the worst lies of our adversaries." Stalin should not be castigated too severely, explained L'Humanité Boss Etienne Fajon, one of the Moscow pilgrims, for he had only "used unworthy methods for a just...
...days later stocky Auguste Lecoeur, once considered a logical successor to Thorez, but drummed out of the party in 1954 for criticizing party strategy, was scheduled to speak in the northern French town of Hénin-Liétard, where he had once been a Communist Deputy. Lecoeur is busy these days trying to promote an independent leftist movement. The Communist Party issued orders: "All workers will prevent Lecoeur from performing his nefarious piece of work." When the doors of the hall opened, a crowd of 1,000 Communist bullyboys, who had descended...