12 MARCH 1954, Page 4

Deviationist in Disgrace

Radicals, Socialists and at least some Communists is based. It now looks as if Moscow has said " No," and M. Duclos has taken advantage of the decision to liquidate a powerful rival within the party. The neutralist thesis, therefore, falls to the ground, and the lesson is that it is impossible for a leading Communist in Western Europe to differ effectively froal Moscow if he has not first captured the party organisation. M. Lecoeur will be expelled, but there will be no split. The party will remain as monolithic as ever. The only sufferers will bet M. Lecoeur, the neutralists and the French working-class. ,1