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...serious danger in Soviet economic and political offensives; the U.S. must aim toward a long-range world economic policy to counter the new Soviet offensive. With President Eisenhower back in charge, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went abroad in an attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer...
From Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, who was governor of Algeria under Mendès-France, came support for Lacoste. Said Soustelle: "If the Mediterranean becomes a moat instead of a passage, France will cease to be a great power and will see the whole of Africa closed...
...reinforce the 230,000 troops already in Algeria, and for a huge investment program in Algeria totaling $570 million. Not until order was restored, he argued, should France negotiate with the rebels. The most influential man in Mollet's Cabinet, Minister-Without-Portfolio Pierre Mendès-France, backed Lacoste's military plans, but demanded that the government open negotiations with the rebels at once...
Useless Blood. Mollet's program did not sit well with anybody. "A fake attempt to negotiate peace and half measures to prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express (the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, which this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly). The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets [little packets], the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Dienbienphu...
...negotiate fresh concessions from the French. The day the Moroccan declaration was signed, Premier ben Amar conferred earnestly with Ben Youssef. Between them, the Moroccans and Tunisians had set up a political whipsaw which had France dodging. Tunisia was the first to win local self-government, from then-Premier Mendès-France. Moroccans promptly demanded the same thing, and with the precedent of Tunisia, no succeeding government could deny them. Now the Tunisians were back to get whatever the Moroccans got. Said Ben Youssef to Premier ben Amar with satisfaction: "North Africa is a single people. What profits...