Word: mollet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agreed on a meeting between President Eisenhower and France's Premier Guy Mollet, in Washington, Feb. 26 and 27, and a meeting between Ike and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (at Ike's suggestion), March 21 through 24. One point up for discussion in Bermuda: a proposal by the financially pressed Macmillan government that 1) the British cut the strength of their four NATO divisions by up to 30,000 men, and 2) the U.S. make up the difference in firepower by supplying guided missiles to the remaining British forces...
...exasperation one day last month, French Premier Guy Mollet turned on Christian Pineau, his Foreign Minister, who was fretting about what the U.N. would do with the troublesome Algerian problem. "What matters to me," snapped Mollet, "is not the United Nations but the United States." To hard-headed Guy Mollet it seemed self-evident that the treatment given the two-year-old Algerian revolt in the glass palace on the East River would be largely determined along the banks of the Potomac...
What Premier Mollet wanted was U.S. support for the French argument that the U.N. has no right to interfere in the Algerian rebellion because Algeria is legally a part of France. To win this support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning...
...friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria's future status with whoever won the elections...
...Mollet accepted an invitation to meet with Eisenhower at the White House for a two-day conference beginning...