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...DIED. Waldeck Rochet, 77, secretary-general of the French Communist Party from 1964 to 1972 who, by putting distance between the party and the Soviet Union, strengthened its appeal at the polls and rebuilt its shrunken membership; in Paris...
...once so slavishly obedient to Moscow that its official newspaper, L'Humanité, described the Soviet repression of Hungary in 1956 under the incredible headline BUDAPEST SMILES AMONG THE RUINS. Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet, 65, the French Communists are seeking to recast their image. Other party stalwarts are helping out. In December, the Communists' 1969 presidential candidate, Jacques Duclos, joined other well-known Frenchmen on television to describe how he interpreted Christmas. Looking like Santa Claus in mufti, the beaming, rolypoly former pastry...
...Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom," as Communist Boss Waldeck Rochet described his organization, opted for a Popular Front government. By so doing...
...week quit the party. She is Madame Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, the 58-year-old widow of the party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia and asserted its new-found critical attitude toward Mos cow. Wrote L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper: "No party is perfect and no party can avoid making mistakes in method...
...Communists were especially bitter, since the Gaullists had singled them out as the scapegoats for the disorders, accusing them of conspiring to take over France and turn it into a Communist dictatorship; actually, the disorders ignited with little if any aid from the Communist Party. Cried Communist Party Leader Waldeck Rochet: "The Gaullists won by applying blackmail of fear against the French people...