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Hammarskjold's next stop was Paris, where French Premier Pierre Mendès-France went out to Orly Field to meet him.* The two men chatted for an hour and Mendès-France commended this "mission of peace...
Like antagonists retiring from the battlefield to regroup, France's National Assembly and Premier Mendès-France went off last week on short vacations. For Mendès the vacation was, typically, an opportunity to get work done. Chronically unable to leave his job behind him, Mendès booked reservations for himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home...
...very moment of Mendés-France's victory, his best friends anticipated his "fall. His enemies have nicked him mockingly, confident that they can bring him down at their pleasure. Last week Mendés' young brain-trusters, estimating that he has only a few weeks of political life after the Assembly returns from recess, talked of the impending fall as a kind of political death and resurrection leading to the breakup of the old parties and Mendés' return as the leader of a "New Left." Beating the drums loudest for the New Left...
Malraux last week, "the renaissance of French liberalism . . . This liberalism is symbolized by Mendés-France. Should Mendés-France fall, crystallization could take place with surprising rapidity." Calculating aloud, Malraux figured that only 1,500,000 of the 5,000,000 Communist voters were really hard-core supporters...
Servan-Schreiber, pointing with pride to "the exceptional nature of a meeting on the political plane between Pierre Mendés-France, liberal statesman; François Mauriac, inspiration of the Christian left, and André Malraux, the revolutionary guide who renounced nothing which united him with De Gaulle," concluded: "Here are the men from whom the rising generation can draw reasons for ... believing again in the virtues of political action...