Puanee Tome And the, People's Front. Secretary of te Prench Communist French Comm Party, and: Member of the Chamber Beputies, representing. the Seine Division. tr from th French manuscript by Enie Burn M. Thoree, us General Secretary of the French Communist Party, weltes with authority on the programme of his "party" and its attitude towa {is opponents, and in Mr. Burns he thas found a translator who combines eelency in translation with a strong understanding of the Communist creed. It is not quite clear to the Sulsider what the Communists Would Setually make of the Job of ruling France if they had. their opportune ity. "At the moment they have won certain successes in the French Elec: tions and the leader of the dominant Socialist Party has 10 look to. the Communists on his Telt a8 well as to the Radicals on his right for support on different "occasions, This' book Wwas written before the election results were Tenown, but the successes Schieved wore expected. and. Thores cheerfully says that the re: fult will be the Feerudeseence of the lass" struggle. He joyfully motes that the Party has, tripe Jed is" membership in the last two years and atthe end of 1035. it iotalted™" 75,000 "people. Its chief organ "LtHumanité" is said to reach 2 dally average of 250000. copies {wo editions, one for Paris and the ther forthe. provinces.
The dogmatism of this book is a Bille tiring, as, for example, "when intimates that the future: Commune st "Government will put an end. 10 unemployment, wil hand" over the land to those who work if, and. gene rally salve every problem at present Baming' the wicked capita 4 little more light on. the means 10 be taken (0 achieve that end, and if he could be privileged to receive. this information' he would of course guarantee not to steal the thunder of his informants and dishonourably ticipate them with their solutions, 'According to the figures quoted by' MIN. Thorez, out of every. thousand adults' in France, 385 own no proerty whatever, 360 own Jess than 10,000 franes each, 285 own between 10,000 and $00,000 tranes, and ten each thousand own over 500,000
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