TOWARDS CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE?
Leonard, Dan
Towards Civil War in France? 1. Military Preparations Of the Communist Party By Dan Leonard AS soon as the French Government issued the order to disband all postwar armed civilian groups,...
...Moreover, they are now organizing an armed force for the purpose of seizing full power...
...On March 15 Nicholas II abdicated for himself and his son in favor of his brother, Michael, who withdrew the very next day In favor of the Provisional Government and a future constituent assembly...
...Petersburg and now Leningrad), following upon two days of Street riots, scaled the fate of the Czarist regime...
...the only representative of Socialist opinion In the Government...
...Some of these offices have been "colonized" to such a degree that their personnel consists almost solely of Communists...
...It had accorded independence to Poland...
...his assistant is a Spaniard named Roque and their office is at 14 rue de PArgenterie...
...But the elections lack the spectacular nature of national elections* and the press (including Popn* '•"»«) takes no notice of them...
...Generally, the attempt to disarm the Communist guerillas was not successful...
...On May 1, 1946, in Angers, the CP central committee purchased 15 machine guns, and on April 28, 150 pistols and 25 automatics were bought...
...The sharecroppers are very nunii inns in France...
...By dint of an amazingly ii..weiiu| propaganda and strewd "colom/.alion" laches, vj;--1 doii.aiiis of K'em'i life have ii', v been "coiiii'Hiin?ei| ' The Communists infiltrate everywhere...
...They further posse-- tlnee evening papei .< and an arsenal of h. i.'uzincs and icviiw...
...their number Is not known, but it Is known that they carry out arrests of their political antagonists (a number of workers suspected of "Trotskyism" have been sr...
...the Minister of Justice was Alexander Kereusky...
...In the Sarthe Department, near Mans, on the road to St...
...The same law provides that factory committees are to be established in every enterprise employing more than 50 workers...
...they have extended thtit influence to university professors and students, to artists and sportsmen, mid have even created unions of small aiti.sans and merchants...
...Part is stored in a bicycle warehouse on Boulevard du Roi Rene at Angers...
...Members of this outfit sre all Communists...
...with the help of Communists they now try to expropriate the landowners...
...If the Communists decide to call for a revolt, Party members will be well-armed...
...Paul Miliukov...
...There is a detachment of Yugoslavs at Pcrpignan, under a Communist whose alias is La Bocca...
...It had carried out drastic agrarian reform...
...The training of "cadres" for a possible civil war is now proceeding apace, mostly in the South of France...
...They have founded a "Union of French Women", a "Union of Old People," a "Union of Republican Youth...
...According to the law, 160,000 delegates and the same number of alternates are elected on the basis of lists drafted by the strongest trade union organization in every factory...
...With the help of trade unions, the Communist Party dominates the factory committees, too, By taking full advantage of all these organs, the Communist Party has recently succeeded in vastly increasing its strength, and in penetrating deeply into the mass of workers...
...This actually means that the delegates are nominated by the CGT, now dominated by Communists...
...They have given special attention to farmers...
...The Government set a final date for the surrender of arms...
...They were never turned Over it the authorities...
...The commander is a Czech, Lieutenant Frantizek...
...Htrunsky adds that the majority of Americans think that the Romanov dynasty was overthrown by the Bolsheviks led by Lenin and Trotsky...
...2. Communist Control Is Increasing By Van Makar TAKING advantage of Marcel Paule'.s power in the Ministry of Production, the Communists got hold of the management of the nationalized mines, gas and electric industry...
...1. Military Preparations Of the Communist Party By Dan Leonard AS soon as the French Government issued the order to disband all postwar armed civilian groups, including the Communist-dominated "patriotic miiitia," the Communists changed the name of their militia to "republican guard," and succeeded in delaying disarmament for a month...
...On l hi basis of the recently enacted laws foi the protection of land tenants and shaiecroppers, the Communists have launehid a vigorous campaign in the villages...
...I'npulaiie recently complained that in the insurance office in the town of Baizier everybody, f.-om the director down to the floor ¦weeper, was a member of the Communist Party...
...These committees are vested with wide powers...
...They have created a ?preial outfit, allegedly for combatting espionage In the aviation industry...
...What ii at stake st these elections i* who is to administer a fund of !»0 - 000,000,000 francs...
...Under the pretext of repatriating Soviet citizens) many Russians have visited the training camps...
...The Provisional Government that they overthrew In November, 1917, was a free, democratic regime that had, in March, proclaimed full civil liberties and legal equality for all regardless of race, religion or social origin...
...The office provides workers with pensions, doles, subsidies, etc., insures them against risks, and of course expects them to express their gratitude by voting for the Communist Party...
...After that date expired, the police began the forcible disarming of those who had refused to give them up...
...It is repeated that at fairs which the Communists oiganize in villages, they give presents to women, and deliver haiungues to the effect that they are the sole protectors of the farmers' property against encroachments by "trusts...
...The collections for, and all the payments from, the social security fund are now placed in the hands of the so-called united insurance offices...
...Similar trends exist among the tenants...
...Elections to the board of social security •re to be-held in April, and Ift.OOO.OOO workers and employees are entitled to vote...
...Pavase, in Rosters, there is a military training school for abou 50 youths, wearing the insignia of the Hammer and Sickle...
...The mistrustful, but rather naive French faimeis are quite impressed by such talk...
...Most of the arms abandoned by the Germans in their retreat or parachuted to the Maquis are .-till in the possession of the Communists and their sympathizers...
...Of all American newspapers only the X V Time* noted the fact fact that the Moscow conference met on the thirtieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, In his distinguished column, "Topics of the Times," Simeon Strunsky commented: "The climax toward which events had been moving for many months in Russia came on March 10, 1917, when a mutiny of the Pctrograd garrison (formerly St...
...Who Liquidated Czarism...
...All this ¦•few I,enln had returned from Switzerland, to "transform the bourvi i.is democratic revolution into s pioletarian revolution...
...The central committee of the Communist Party issued an order recently which directed the "security groups" to concentrate on photographic work...
...At 6 rue de Boudet, Bordeaux, and 4 rue du Train, Railly, there are such bases, with Comrade Garcia in charge, which are key transition points where party members are given food, clothing, documents, and transferred to other areas for training...
...the Minister of Foreign Affairs was the historian and Duma leader, Prof...
...By virtus of the law of April l«, I94«, delegates are to be elected in eveiy enterprise with more than 10 workers...
...This led to many armed clashes...
...Enterprises of this kind turn out about 60 percent of the nation's production, and are now headed for nationalization...
...The "republican guards" wire temporarily disbanded, but their guns went into hiding...
...During the Resistance the Communist partisans seized 10 to 10.000,000,000 francs which they did not tun: over to the State, despite the insistauce of Government and Resistance organs...
...The propaganda machinery' of the party has become very powerful dec to unlimited funi-' ut its disposal...
...Humattiti, FVine-Tii rem, h'iouf X'aImmil and On.l<-i.—whose editor Rune, though pretending independence, invariably follow- 'he party 'inc...
...On March It the I ''una refused to obey an order of dissolution and on the following day, , March 12, the Duma proclaimed ths Provisional Government...
...At 18 Avenue Sermat, Nat-bonne, the staff of the international Communist detachment is located...
...In I'ai is aloii" they possess four morning newspapers...
...By this propaganda (he Communists expect to win half a million new votris...
...irsled...
...But the Communists realize that successful elections Will give them Increased Influence...
...These bases are variously disguised as organizations of social relief and trade union centers...
...The Provisional Government had abolished legal discrimination against Jews...
...to make lists of "counter-revolutionary elements," of former prisoners of war with anti-Soviet tendencies, of all officers suspected of opposition to Communism, and of refugees who refuse to return to Soviet spheres...
...Profiting from the fa< t that the Communist Croizat was Minister of Labor, they seized (through Communist trade unions) the direction of the tremendous operations of social secu'iry...
...The latter are accordingly in the position to lay their hands on the vast machinery of these committees...
...The head of the Provisional Government was Prince George Lvov, a M.< i ni ininded Zemstvo and municipal leader...
...Two of these were General Guchliov and General Gorodovoi who visited Mont de Marsen in the Landes...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 11
