Thorez Kicked Out of His Russian Sick-BedThe scene when Thorez left France for Moscow in a special soviet plane... the Russians said that they would soon make him a healthy man... now Thorez is too ill to travel the return trip by plane... he is returning by train. Fifty-three-year-old Maurice Thorez, France's invalid communist leader, has been ordered home to Paris from his Moscow sick bed to try and reorganize the split and bewildered French communist party. Reports from Paris state that Thorez has been granted full powers by Malenkov to rearrange the party leadership and beat the ambitious rivalries into line. March 30, 1953. (Photo by Paul Popper).
Thorez Kicked Out of His Russian Sick-BedThe scene when Thorez left France for Moscow in a special soviet plane... the Russians said that they would soon make him a healthy man... now Thorez is too ill to travel the return trip by plane... he is returning by train. Fifty-three-year-old Maurice Thorez, France's invalid communist leader, has been ordered home to Paris from his Moscow sick bed to try and reorganize the split and bewildered French communist party. Reports from Paris state that Thorez has been granted full powers by Malenkov to rearrange the party leadership and beat the ambitious rivalries into line. March 30, 1953. (Photo by Paul Popper).