Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Party leader seems yet ready to break away from Moscow. Only three have enough stature to pull off such a rebellion: Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos and André Marty. But Duclos is not considered ambitious enough, and Marty is too blindly loyal to Stalin, to rise against Moscow. Thorez, French political experts believe, has the inclination to rebel but so far he has lacked the guts. Three times he has been slapped down by Moscow for being too "nationalistic." Each time he has abjectly begged forgiveness...
Last week, 51 leaders of French Communism gathered in a Paris suburban town hall to hear reports from pudgy Jacques Duclos and bull-necked Georges Cogniot, envoys to last month's meeting of the Cominform (TIME, Dec. 12). They relayed orders for a drive against "titoism, Trotskyites and police spies." Said Duclos: "I was reminded of a reproach once uttered by our Comrade Jose Diaz (prewar Spanish Communist leader): 'You are too fat. Revolutions are not made with stomachs like yours...
...holiday season also brought hope of freedom to thousands of second-string collaborators still in French jails. Premier Bidault's cabinet last week approved a bill, which will shortly go to the French Assembly, granting amnesty to several categories, of collaborators, including those sentenced to national "unworthiness" or "degradation" for minor dealings with the enemy...
Jean Duval's extreme plight is not typical in France today, but there still are thousands of French workers who, despite the country's ECA-financed recovery, are only slightly better off than Duval.* It is among their bitter ranks that the Communists win their votes. France's Communist Humanité promptly turned Duval's story into ready political capital. When readers of Le Monde started sending money and gifts to Duval, Humanité snorted: "The workers want no alms . . ." Later it added: "Plumber, take the gifts in money and kind that the grand bourgeois...
...more simpático of recent public figures in Argentina was Eva Perón's lively, silver miniature French poodle Negrita. Whether at work at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, or at home to greet distinguished visitors, Negrita and Evita were almost inseparable. When Negrita died last August, Argentine representatives abroad were asked to find a replacement...