Maurice Thorez bent his bull neck and buried his head in his hands. In the town hall of Gentilly, near Paris, he was presiding over a meeting of the French Communist Party's Central Committee. He was presiding, but the man in charge was a former schoolteacher, handsome 41-year-old Etienne Fajon. And, in front of all the comrades, Fajon was giving him a polite but painful roasting.
Teacher Fajon could lecture Boss Thorez because Thorez, unlike Tito, had no army, no secret police that would protect him in defiance of the Cominform. Fajon, permanent representative...
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