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ELUARD Paul (1895-1952).

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ELUARD Paul (1895-1952).
3 autograph MANUSCRIPTS of political speeches, [ca. 1948- 1949]| 5 1/2 pages in-4, with erasures and corrections.
[April 1948]. World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace in Wroclaw, Poland. Instead of reading a poem on peace, he will list testimonies of barbarism in France, "because xenophobic agitation is one of the greatest factors of preparation for war"...
[April 1949]. Commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the Spanish Republic. "The present world situation gives to the whole revolutionary struggle which the Spanish people have sustained and continue to sustain a meaning which we must never forget. It shows us, more present than ever, the need to struggle"... This country under an authoritarian regime has a "revolutionary permanence"... [Around 1948-1949?] Homage to Romania, to its participation in world federations, its cultural activity imbued with "the creative spirit proper to proletarian internationalism", its contribution to the mutual knowledge of peoples. He hopes that the "free people" of Romania will not be intimidated by foreigners, especially the French government "at the orders of American imperialism", of "war and capitalist oppression"...
Attached are 4 autograph or typed fragments with autograph corrections (including an autographed note on revolutionary justice)| the typescript of his speech in Wroclaw (report at the Mutualité in Paris, November 23, 1948), and the typescript of an address by Pavel Buncák introducing Éluard in the Czech Republic (1950?).