Thorez
Americannoun
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Jack Thorez Finken-McKay, who transferred from the Royal Fusiliers to the War Office to perform special duties, said he became "a living skeleton" at the hands of the Gestapo in his letter to the Foreign Office.
From BBC
In this hard-bitten coal-mining settlement, named after French communist politician Maurice Thorez, a grocery store and several two-story concrete-block apartment buildings clustered around the whitewashed station, sizzling in the heat.
From Washington Post
"When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potentially the most important change: Thorez himself resigned after 34 years as secretary-general.
From Time Magazine Archive
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