European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To 4 the stars and stripes to Wesdon March pravda says these Are top communists at Faim s funeral in not Tishri Ham or ores h no myth k no this picture from the front Page of pravda shows communist leaders from ail Over the world standing at the Lenin mausoleum for the funeral of Joseph Stalin. From left to. Right Are George Georghiou Dej Romania Boles Taw Beruf Poland Pate Den Ai North Korea Walter i Bricht East Germany Dolores Iba Ruri a pass Onari Spain Oro Grotewohl East Germany Zuiko Cherenkov Bulgaria Matyas Rakosi Hungary Pilro Nezhni Italy ? Palmiro Togliatti Italy Jacques Duclos France the late Klement Gotwald Czechoslovakia soviet minister of Wor Nikolai  soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav m. Molotov k. E. Vor Shilov chairman soviet presidium soviet Premier Gergi m. Malenkos n. S. Khrushchev soviet presidium soviet minister of Interior Lavrenti Beria m. Z. Saparov soviet presidium Chou in Iai Premier of red China and m. G. Pervushin a m. Kaganovich a m. Savernik and a. Y. Mikoyan also of the soviet presidium. Stalin was buried alongside Lenin. Up photo red strength slipping in France influence fades amid hassles by Harvex Hudson Labis a the French come a unlit party once rated Ashe Best organized in Western Europe is slipping badly. Har Assed by attacks from the Boyera int and torn by internal Dis. A Ensign it has lost a considerable share of its membership and influenced \ a but from the red Point of View the news is not All bad. The communists stir can rightly a Laizar to be the biggest party i France. It is certainly the most handsomely financed. It controls the biggest Trade Union federa Tio and it collects about 25 per cent of the votes in any election. With All this outward show of. Strength however it still is not the same powerful party of five years ago. Government pressure and indifference among the work ers have trimmed the Power Olathe communists to Call paralysing general strikes and Rowdy demonstrations for political purposes \ the reds claimed  Mem Bers after the War but the Nura Lier has Leone Down steadily. By 1s48, Fay their own count and Hist Vas suspected of being exaggerated there were 780,000 card carriers. The estimates of registered party members now vary from 300,000 to 600,000. The Best guesses of those who follow the situation closely place the total at about Union membership Down circulation of communist news papers also is Down. Its Paris afternoon newspaper be sob has just folded. The official party Organ l humanity has a circulation of less than 175,000, compared to 600000 after the liberation of France. With the exit of be soil the communists Are left with Only two Paris dallies a humanity and liberation which closely Fol lows the party line without peddling it blatantly. To All France the communist Snow have 16 dailies compared to a postwar Peak of 30.membership in the communist dominated general federation of Labo Frances biggest Trade onion also is sharply of the Cut claimed More than 6,400.000 members in january 1948,but by june 1951 had dropped its claims to 3,615.440. Official govern ment estimates have placed its strength As Low is 1,800,000. Maurice Thorrez the Moscow trained Secretary general of the Parry has been absent since no vember 1950. He was flown to Moscow for treatment of a Para Lytic stroke. Last year l humanity published a series of encouraging Btu tins about his health and often predicted his Early return. He did not come Home however and since last autumn All talk about a Homecoming has been stopped. Mariy ouster there is no question that the party has been shaken by the ouster of Andre marry who had been one of the three top officers. He was removed not Only from his Job As assistant Secretary general but was kicked off the politburo and Central committee and finally thrown out of the party. Implicated with him on a charge of fraction Alisa was Deputy. Charles Tulon who was remove from the politburo and Central. Committee but left i the party. Marty was one of the Tough old party veterans. He had been built up As the hero of a Mutiny to the French Fleet sent to the Black sea to fight the bolsheviks in 1919. Reorganized the foreign contingents fighting for the communists in the Spanish civil War. Be favored strikes Street riots and Violen Ceas the bust Way to achieve communist Aims. He was out of step however with the latest turning of the party line. The word now is that the communists should try to enlist the Friendship and support of socialists and catholics. When it looked like Marty might be trying Pickle packers pall at Pace of but party gets " German pickers 25% of vote to insist on his own favored Way of doing things i a Challenge to the leadership of Jacques Duclos acting head of the party he was quickly dropped and thoroughly discredited by the party press. Marty -1 stubbornly believed i Street fighting and strikes despite the fact that the communists Haven t been Able to pull off a big political strike since 1948. The suffered a telling defeat last year when a demonstration against the i arrival of Gen Matthew bring Way hopped. In this fiasco acting Leader Duclos was arrested. Strikes were called to protest the detention pid Clos but these too  plan fail the communists loudly pro claimed they never would permit american arms to be unloaded in France. With control of the Dock workers Union there were fearathey1 could make it stick. But when the test came the impoverished Dock workers decided they would rather have the Money. From the work than the blessings of the party leaders. The Parl quietly called off its Campaign for sabotage of the rearmament program. In spite of All the troubles with in and without the party it is Tili very much a going  it comes time to go to the Polki one Frenchman out of four votes communist. In the 1916 general elections the reds captured 26j2 per cent of the total vote. In the 3951 general elections the communist got 24.78 per cent the party members Are strata. Go Cay spotted in key position for making trouble. They control the unions in the nationalize arsenals the railways the electricity and Gas industries. A few Well placed fanatics in any of these industries might be Able to cause inestimable damage in Case of War. Aft Insan of Angeles Ithica go up american Piekle a packers Learned to their Hor ror that the germans pick More pecks of pickles than they do Barry Hirsch told a meeting of the1 National Pickle packers  German Cucumber growers have got the americana beat 3-1hi their yield per acre. He said the germans average Between 300 and 350 bushels per acre while the Best american growers can do is about 94 Bush Els. Hirsch said this paradoxical situation exists despite the fact that germans eat Only in pounds of pickles per person per year White the americans consume 4 pounds. Hirsch said he believed the Ger Man yield was better because the German Farmer cultivates Island More. Artists show signs of blames the machine. Sipping teat the6-foot 2-Inch Irish peer the Shock to the Hiroms system produced machine is far too great longer live attuned with but that s not All of it sensitive people Ahmad first we have Art surrealism poems shorthand plays that have Little meaning. This i think lathe Peculiar kind at diced by the machine it accounts too for us Scenith of literary these Days. Insanity anti Scenith Are related. Ask a doctor1"people ask me what think of modern poetry i answer them Don t ask old you should ask a doctor it " How blame the machine Many people make up a Day in a motor car for hour or an hour travelling Miles an hour Dunsany the houses and the people the other motor cars an landscape Flash by them. Test a series of unrelated which Are presented too and in too great a number our minds to coordinate. Humanity let us say i people packed in an an which lift travelling Down to without lights on a dark terrific Speed and driven year old child. The along the Way Are All Progress too Clever to perhaps we Are too cd car live they say the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 1,000,000 times More than other bombs Han our Dom been multiplied times i think not. 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