Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mollet linked his Socialists with Pierre Mendès-France's Radicals in a left-of-center Republican Front. On election day the Socialists won 94 Deputies to Mendès' 50, thus giving Mollet a claim to being the senior partner. Mollet's claim rested on the fact that the Socialists picked up 455,000 new votes to poll a solid 3,188,000-their first increase since 1945, though through the inequities of the electoral system, the party actually dropped eight seats. The governing center-right coalition had lost even more, could no longer...
...their economic doctrines. He simply considers them "representatives of the Soviet Union." One of his favorite sayings is that the Communists "are not left but East." One of France's most ardent "Europeans" and a last-ditch supporter of EDC (he has never quite forgiven his new ally Mendès for letting EDC die), Mollet is also a dedicated friend of the Atlantic Alliance. "If there had been five U.S. soldiers in Europe in 1939, war would never have happened," he says...
...polls-a healthy 82% of the eligible turned out-and, in an Assembly of 626 seats (30 of them to be decided later in Algeria), had dissipated the power to govern among four main blocs, roughly as follows: ¶ Communists: 150. ¶ Left-of-center coalition (Pierre Mendès-France and Socialists): 160. ¶ Right-of-center coalition (Premier Edgar Faure, Roman Catholic M.R.P., Independents): 200. ¶ Poujadists...
...slight numerical superiority, made the first gesture towards putting things back together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...hard-bargaining Mendès-France and his Socialist ally Mollet turned down Faure's offer, insisted on a chance to form a government of their own. "We have decided not to let ourselves be divided," explained Mollet...