Word: vermeersch
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...French army, he had spent the war years there while his underground comrades in France risked their lives fighting the Nazis (and laying the groundwork for the Reds' postwar power). Marty and Tillon resented Comrade Thorez's absentee leadership. Marty called Thorez and his wife, Jeannette Vermeersch, "resisters from Moscow." At a meeting of the French politburo, Tillon spoke bitterly of comrades who did not fight in the Resistance, but operated by remote control from abroad...
Moscow had sent Professor Sergei Davidenkov to attend Stalin's "very dear Comrade Thorez." Davidenkov disagreed with the French doctors, said that he would personally guarantee a cure in a Moscow clinic. Thorez' wife, Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch, took the hint and publicly asked the Soviet to treat her husband. The Red Foreign Ministry made the request official, the French government agreed and Thorez...
...France's Jeannette Vermeersch, who started as a mill hand in Lille, lived for years with Maurice Thorez, eventually married him. She has the reputation of being a hard, intelligent party worker. Rank & filers like her for being a roughhewn, no-nonsense kind of a wife to Thorez (and to Communism), who can talk about the price of butter...
Many of the women had spent years fighting for Communism as members of the party, among them Bulgaria's Tsola Dragoicheva and Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez (sturdy helpmeet of France's Communist leader). A self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose salons in London and Manhattan were once brilliantly haunted by the world's famous, from Henry James to Gertrude Stein. Amid her drably dressed fellow delegates she appeared in a white-stitched black linen Clare McCardell creation. She explained that the dress was really quite inexpensive. (She always...
...Lost Spring. Marshall's first stop was Paris, where President Vincent Auriol gave a dinner in his honor at the Elysée Palace's somber Salle Murat. On the guest of honor's right sat Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez, longtime mistress and now wife of France's Communist boss. The First Lady of French Communism speaks no English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue...