Word: rochet
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...sawdust floor in Murat and told 300 townsmen that the government had forgotten them. Socialist Leader François Mitterrand was in Ussel, holding forth on the evils of "caste and privilege" in a hall that stank of sweat and Gauloise Bleue cigarettes. And at Aubervilliers, Communist Waldeck Rochet denounced "social demagoguery" in a suitably dingy gymnasium...
Last week their isolation abruptly ended. Wearing a broad smile and a television-blue shirt, Party Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet told a crowded news conference that the Communists had just signed an agreement to collaborate with two major non-Communist parties-the Socialists and Radicals -and a group of small but highly influential leftist "political clubs." Seated quietly beside Rochet, in a grand display of their new-found unity, were Socialist Party Secretary-General Guy Mollet and François Mitterrand, president of the powerful Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left...
...strongest among West European Communists. First to speak out were the French, who only a week before Khrushchev's fall had declared their formal independence from Moscow control; they were obviously determined to keep that independence. The French demanded "fuller information and necessary explanations," and Party Boss Waldeck Rochet announced that he would send a delegation to Moscow to get the answers...
...sweltering heat as the mile-long procession headed for Père-Lachaise. Ahead of the flag-draped coffin strode ranks of miners from Thorez' native north, wearing red scarves and white helmets. Behind the hearse walked row after row of foreign Communist officials. At the cemetery Waldeck Rochet, who succeeded Thorez as secretary-general only ten weeks ago, paid respects to his old chief...
...years, younger elements in the party had been struggling to win more independence in the tight, monolithic structure built by Thorez over the years. Rochet, handpicked by Thorez, reflects the old man's views. But deprived of cher Maurice's prestige and personality, he will find it increasingly difficult to fend off the reformers...