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From The New International, Vol. VII No. 11, December 1941, p. 290.
Transcribed & marked up
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Upon going to press The New International received the tragic news of the death of our French comrade, Jean Meichler. Meichler was held by the German occupation army as a hostage and summarily executed by the barbaric Nazi horde. In the loss of Meichler at the hands of fascism, the revolutionary movement of France and the world was deprived of one of its most devoted and ardent members.
Jean Meichler was one of the founders of the French Trotskyist movement and through the years of its development was a leading member, engaging in a wide sphere of activity. He was well know in the French revolutionary movement and respected by everyone for his ardent revolutionary spirit and adherence to the cause of the liberation of mankind and the struggle for socialism.
We mourn the loss of Jean Meichler, who died on the proletarian firing line.
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