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Exactly what happened when they first got there is still a question. According to one account: the secretary of the municipal president said, "Those are the sons of bitches we are waiting for!" and ordered the church bells to sound a tocsin. Within a few minutes the federal officers were being stoned and beaten. Arenas played dead, escaped. Ocana was killed...
Next day the Virgin rolled deeper into the Red Belt. But the tocsin had sounded. When she came to Thiais, the proletarians were gathered, several thousand strong. For Marx and Mary, fists flew, clubs thudded. Again police broke up the fray. Out of the melee they yanked six Communists, three seminarists and one priest to spend the night in jail...
...Pleven proposal was, in effect, a supplementary income tax. But if it became law, which seemed likely, it would establish a principle* which might well ring the tocsin for French capitalism...
...tocsin? Last week the French government, prodded and pushed on by the Resistance, took control of one of France's biggest industrial enterprises-the Renault automobile plant (peacetime employes: 34,000). Next it nationalized the coal mines of the Pas-de-Calais and Nord departments. Soon, it announced, some 50 major plants.would be controlled by the Government...
...people and we will defend the interests of the people with ferocious tenacity!" Another meeting, scheduled for the "Popes' Palace" at Avignon this week, entitled itself the Etats Généraux-the name of the body whose meeting began the French Revolution. Was it a tocsin...