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The Russian government ordered
expulsion of the mission in retalia-
ton for similar French action
against the Soviet repatriation mis-
sion in France.
Expulsion Of the French mission
was reported in a Soviet note which
the French government yesterday
refused to accept because of its
strong language and the fact it had
been published before delivery.
The Foreign Ministry said the
French charge d'affaires in Moscow,
pursuant to instructions yesterday,
handed the note back to Soviet au-
thorities in the afternoon. The note
also protested the treatment of So
Wet citizens in France.
The diplomatic dispute followed
and grew out of the month long,
Communist -propagated strikes In
France which ended yesterday.
Three-Month Plot Charged.
Marquie accused his government
Of plotting for three months to
evict the Russian mission from
France and of Systematically carry
ing out this plan. His statements
were published here today in the
Communist newspaper L'Humanite.
He told Russian and foreign re-
porters at a news conference in
Moscow that French charges
against two officers of the Soviet re-
patriation commission were with
out proof and false"
Marquie said his government was
entirely responsible for the events
Of the last few days." during which
the mutual expulsions were ordered
and trade negotiations between the
two nations broken of.
None Of these events can be
blamed on the Soviet government, /"
he declared.
Aide Backs Up Statement.
Another member Of the mission,
1t. Dumas, backed him up. He
signed statement, read at the
news conference, saying the French
mission had received every CO.
operation from Soviet authorities.
One of the French contentious in
the dispute was that while the So.
Wet repatriation mission in France
had been able to travel anywhere
in France, the French mission in
Russia was tightly restricted in its
movements. @
Marquie, who declared that "all
responsibility for this statement is
my own, personally" asserted that
in the two years of the missions ex-
istence 1t has repatriated 315,564
Frenchmen with the corporation Of
the Russian government.
He said statements that thousands
Of Frenchmen still remained in
Russia were "lies and propaganda"
and said the number still unre-
patriated amounted only to "sev-
eral tens" These, he said, are now
being deliberately abandoned by
the French government.
BY contrast, he continued, "sev-
eral thousand Soviet citizens" re-
main in France while their return
home sis being Systematically
hindered by French authorities"
Russian Translation Read.
A Russian translation OF his state
ment was read for the benefit OF the
Russian reporters present, followed
by a question and answer period.
Marquie said France was the first
victim Of a worldwide anti-Soviet
campaign, the reasons for which
Marquie declared should be sought
France.
(This is an echo of the current
Communist Party line, which
blames the, troubles in France
and Italy on American interfer-
ence and calls the governments
Of those two countries "stooges"
of the United States)
Marquie. who Is little known to
the general public in France, de-
scribed himself in Moscow as a
French soldier who was taken pris-
oner by the Germans and who later
escaped and fought with the Par
tisans in Poland and the Ukraine
against the Nazis.
The apparent end of repatriation
of Frenchmen from Russia upset
many families in Alsace and Lor-
raine, where many men were drafted
into the German armies. One vet
erans' group of the upper Seine de-
partment sent kilograms Of protest
to French officials against the
abandonment of our children still
kept as war prisoners" and de-
manded continuation of repatria-
tion beyond all political considera-
tions."
1t was learned that Marquie, who
is "a years old, was appointed to
his Moscow post at the request Of
Jacques Duclos, secretary of the
Communist Party in France and
one of the foremost international
exponents of the Communist line.
A foreman at the Rhone Poulenc
chemical works, Marquie was called
for compulsory military service In
1888 and mobilized in 1899.
Taken prisoner when France fell,
he was repatriated in July, 1943, be-
cause of sickness and worked in the
resistance to Germans.
He was sent to Moscow in August,
1915.
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