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...French government did more than celebrate Mollet's first year* in office. They underlined a noteworthy fact: Socialist Mollet (who has survived 32 votes of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies) continues to be Premier because the vast majority of Frenchmen and their deputies support his Algerian policy, which might be defined as a policy of the right enforced by a man of the left...
...unusual step of filing for the runoff when he had not even been a candidate in the first election. He flooded the district with 800,000 pamphlets, held a mammoth rally in Paris' biggest arena, charged the Mollet government with "black cowardice" in its concessions to the Algerian Moslems. "Who among you hasn't wished that someone would one day put a bomb in the Assembly?" he cried. "If you want to put in that bomb, vote...
...matter of practical politics, harried Socialist Guy Mollet could scarcely afford to offer the Algerians anything new. Trapped between Algerian terrorists and diehard French imperialists, Mollet had little room for maneuver. Last week the news leaked out that the French government had arrested dashing Brigadier General Jacques Faure, assistant commander of the Algiers area, aboard a French train and sentenced him to 30 days' close confinement in the fortress of La Courneuve outside Paris because of his unconcealed conviction that "in moments of great national crisis [soldiers] must not hesitate to seize power...
...China, Morocco and Tunisia, and enraged by the withdrawal from Port Said, many among the professional officers of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria appeared determined that the French army must not be involved in yet another retreat from empire. Should Mollet show signs of giving in to Algerian demands for independence, much of the army might well support Algeria's reactionary French colons in open defiance of the government...
Parisian Shakedown. The contagion of violence reached to Paris itself. There the supporters of Messali Hadj's Algerian National Movement and those of the National Liberation Front formerly directed by Cairo-based leaders such as the captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj...