Word: thorez
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...have condemned "Soviet treason." They could remain in the Chamber. Most of the others had organized a French Workers' & Farmers' Party. That was held to be a mere subterfuge; they were ousted. André Marty, fiery Communist expert on the French Army, had disappeared. Deputy Leader Maurice Thorez had deserted from the Army. They both lost their citizenship...
...Courts prepared to try 44 Communist former Deputies on minor charges of "illegal activities," punishable by not more than two years in jail and loss of civic rights. Incensed was Moscow when major charges of "treasonable activities," punishable by death, were lodged against nine Communist former Deputies, including Maurice Thorez, the French Earl Browder...
...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...