Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris the atmosphere was reminiscent of the bitter closing days of the Indo-China war. Editorialists summoned their darkest tones, politicians warned of "the line of last defense," headlines cried: TO LOSE ALGERIA IS TO LOSE FRANCE. Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France...
...Compromiser. By instinct and his Socialist upbringing a pacifist and anticolonialist, Guy Mollet did not like the role he was cast in. Lacoste's 200,000 men would mean calling up French youths months early and keeping others in the army past their time, outraging thousands of French mothers with votes. On the other hand, talk of negotiations with "the murderers of French women and children" would antagonize thousands of others. For eight hours the Cabinet debated and argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program...
Numerous admirable characters visit Gary's House. There is Captain Scoop -such a hell of a dainty guy (by a boy's standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator...
...white pointed slippers on dry ground. Nothing was too good for Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, the pro-Nationalist monarch who, a prisoner of the French in Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with his wives to a tapestried villa, and launched on a round of banquets and Parisian splendors...
...Have we fallen so low?" cried the Paris-Presse. "After the insults and tomatoes that greeted Guy Mollet in Algeria, nothing more was needed to stain the regime than a brawl between the representatives of the people...