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...struggle against German fascism came to an end, Stalin was confident that communists would come to power in much of Western Europe. When Charles de Gaulle visited Moscow in 1944, Stalin got very drunk and teased him by asking, "Are you going to arrest ((the French Communist leader Maurice)) Thorez?" Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told...
...first time in its history. One result is that the party, which has a strong Stalinist tradition, has itself split into pro-Moscow and pro-Czechoslovak factions. After bitter quarrels over policy, the symbolic leader of the hard-line faction last 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...
...that the North Vietnamese clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates moving into a villa owned by the openly pro-Soviet French Communists...
...Moscow's Hall of Columns, where the body of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lay in state. Chairman of the feeble U.S. Communist Party, she is the third foreign Red leader to die in the Soviet Union in the last two months, being preceded by France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti...
...Thorez had deserted from the French Army and spent the last years of World War II in Moscow. When De Gaulle signed his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1944 (as he recalled in his memoirs), Stalin said: "If I were in your place, I would not put Thorez in prison," adding with one of his cynical smiles, "At least not right away...