Evening star., 1949-05-29

- zsAkS y SA8s&A ~ - wv
pattern, q raastnaFe ef sasne u
members holds eonasVl ard unerr
1 aIx Masns tl.poa kaaarseS
ats.xlals hrtr u iAr really weak
spos IN the Communist sssap A.
\ result o! the exespssnsssi esrvana-
SIancsx many af ths leaders hare
not aeen cast In tte sAxsa fnnse
a haen AATxist -i~nlnlss crthe.
iaAs pastalAies feF triumph cf
survival
Dgrsnk the famous ecnfsFeres
IN pu,And IN September. issT, A.
A, ZhasnoY ordered TIE CoEnusa-
nls1 Party In n.ne countries To
RSSAsl the MsrshAa Plan flas
was q reversal of position whirh
haiyied tire wst oF eutdle Tire
strength of many
No wonder that aark os 60
hesaon and ssrn naked d.sch<dl.
ence have impaired the nartys
efrleisncy. Tho report 81 TIE
Central Committee
dated February, lsts. Ia o mercs-
less criticism al the spirit ei
INSTRUMENTATION. Of ihs nesieet
which is only loo apparent tn
many places
On the part Of women SUI"
posedly Communist, Q great re"
iuctanee 10 devote their time to
the Communist cause 10 noticed.
They do not have marital sr'
pfusM
L. nav alte does party wosk
who Wlli cook my dinner" az
irritable husband wAs heard 90
exciAlfn
Thorex Called Tame
A process OF expurgatien would
seem to be needed Actually q be.
ginning has been made
Maurice ThoFeE papulsf orator
oi the party, and Jaeauss Duclos,
It's parliamentary dehateT, afe rel
atively tame Communist Par"
tleipa ton In governmental eosR
suited their tastes, Temperament.
tally. they are very different from
Etienne FaIon, the delegate OF the
and otnnipotent LEON
Mauvals. head of the party police
and Of the organization bureau,
not 10 speak oi Andre Marty. the
ship enetneer. aho deetted Az the
Black Sea around 1917 and has
grown TO be marrow MINDED
partisan of some what Obsolete
type
II Is rlmored within the party
that. al the first sien Of a serious
international crisis. ths msn In
command would be supsfsrded by
new heads Moscow has already re-
solved upon Meanwtlils. orders
and instructions from the Soviet
capital arc belne brought to
France, according 10 Minister of
the Interior jules Moeh, nv for
cignefs,
The Communist Party. lift 10
its own strength. viii never he
able 10 capture governmental sn-
thority. External help. short NJ
territorial occupation. would be of
no avail. Many Frrnchmen out
side Communist ranks once we're
prejudiced for Russia Today. the
same Frenehmen are rfsiadseed
against Russia.
Thus. the Communist Party
must be reekoned with in France
not ss = eonauefing force bus ~
NTH column which, in peace and
war. will be found 81 the service
OF Soviet Russia on tlls argument
that the cause Of socialism
the world IL bound to
stand and fall with Soviet Russia.
that whoever hahts against Rus
STA nghts against socialism In the
Joint interest Of imperialism and
Last fall. In ths Ma
tionai Assembly. NJ. T'hoses and his
friends did not rslnes
words about IL,
Socialism Slips
The Socialist Party which vas
led In turn by Jean JauFss ard
Leon Blum. the ''Freneh section
Of the second international" 90 ~
styles itself. has desensrsted nov
adsys into = petty bourgeois party.
II means that the yoang folk sho
ionr for o new social order or. 81
any rate, for some drastic ckanEs
In the existans sncaai order, we're
fayorabiy inclined toward Tire
Communist
Tn contrast 10 The outer rtnE are
The selected few. the hard core u
French bolshsylasn. fashioned
after The Moncow pattern
Among tfe odd k,ooo coo ~ho
voted Communist as the last Fen-
erai election November. isssi.
what 10 the numerical importance
Of the hard eoFs~7 Hos many
are ready 20 so 70 sny length 70
carry osst orders ard lnstTurti0ns
from the top ~ THE party Prcb-
ably little nore than 600 coo.
There In a nuansiiatssF decline
Of the party reflected not only In
electoral statistics but. nsefe I'M
In the circulation ct
newspapers ard seek
oeing "a sxcsp-
ton Were taas government 70
change The electoral isw taFnoF-
row. 10 do assay with proportional
representation. 10 esaforos the sys-
tenn that obtained before The war.
and. on top of II, dissolve the pres
rns National Assembly. hA1 of tiSs
iG3 Communist deputies might ns
thrown overheard.
But. slFc< Tire popular BFpSe~
Leans acatsaoatc D~mocfatt--oss
of tfs swo central Esours On
xnsen the foerth repahisr rests
poe their parliamentary s<aA 70
f~psesrntasaon tn tsae
anne wAr ~ tsss Communists. kta
ssnre tfss third force eassses
.ssza~s tfa~ Nasannsl Assembly, 10
wry~ 20 sh~ Tssc of - t~sm IN
October, 1851. the Communists
see<4 nos be dlstnFbrd ~ tsss rFcs-
,~ct ~ sa early sae~saea Hsnsf