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Down in Front. But at 64, "cher Maurice" was not really retiring; in good corporate style, he simply moved upstairs. Assuming the newly created post of president, he made room for a man only five years his junior, Assistant Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet, a onetime shepherd boy who became the party's expert on agricultural affairs and has always been a loyal party wheelhorse. Plainly, Thorez will continue to make party policy. It was quite a demonstration of the power to hang on, considering that he still shows the effects of the paralytic stroke he suffered 14 years...
...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...
...heady moments last week the Deputies of Gaullist France almost succeeded in recreating the wrangling course of the Fourth Republic. "The representatives of the working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre...
...nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric . . ." Discarding this medieval costume, Monica donned the fashions of the '403, beginning with "an airy nothing" and an uplift bra. "Frankly, I was appalled...
When Coulet let Rochet wander off without punishment, hinted that he might be given a job elsewhere in liberated France, bitter-enders raged. But moderates, who had long since won the day in Gaullist councils, decided that Vichyites should be coolly but firmly judged. A high French official in Algiers said recently: "This talk of bumping off everybody who has been playing ball with Vichy, it is a lot of . . . how do you say it. . . bodewash!* C'est de la merde...