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...Communists were not forgotten-stones were thrown through the windows of some Red offices in Paris, firebombs were tossed into a Communist newspaper plant in Nice, and some Soviet flags were torn down from a group of allied flags near Lille. "The real conquerors are the friends of Thorez and Duclos," reminded Le Figaro. "It is they who, on the ruins and on the tomb, ought to raise the Red banner at the head of the dead...
...from a prosaic discussion of a budget, it is Love -sacred or profane. Last week France's National Assembly was debating whether to cut the $71-a-month allotted to Deputies for secretarial help. Socialist Deputy Maurice Deixonne objected that France's No. 1 Communist, Deputy Maurice Thorez, continues to draw salary and secretarial allowance "even though he has not set foot in the Assembly for years. Surely the Communist Party doesn't need the money. Mr. Thorez rides around in a car modeled on that of the King of Yemen. He lives on the Riviera...
That did it. Communists set up a whoop & holler; one Red Deputy wanted to settle affairs with Deixonne in the corridor. Others challenged his facts. The truth is that the now ailing Thorez lived for years in unsanctified amour with frowsy-haired Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch and fathered her three children, but he and Jeannette are understood to have been quietly married...
...collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...
...paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte Kühn (years later, in 1951, he made Lotte an honest woman...