Word: mollet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When French Premier Guy Mollet's party visited Moscow last year, Mikoyan pressed them to visit his home republic of Armenia. Khrushchev joined in, saying that the Armenian climate was good, even though the food and wine were terrible. In due course, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew to Yerevan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Republic, on Turkey's eastern border. At his hotel Pineau was confronted by hundreds of French-speaking Armenians who had been lured back from France after World War II by Soviet blandishments to "come home and help build a new Armenian homeland." They greeted...
Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
...Agreement Is Unnecessary." A fortnight ago, the full Socialist International Congress met in Vienna. No longer so tactful, Nye Bevan bluntly compared "the sufferings in Algeria" to "the persecutions ... in Hungary," and the Scandinavians made their disapproval painfully clear by abstaining when Guy Mollet (who was not present) was elected a vice president of the International. Back in Paris last week, sturdy Pierre Commin, who headed the French delegation, professed himself undismayed by the Socialist schizophrenia revealed at Vienna...
...report, written by young (30) Andre Vial, co-editor of the leftist Catholic weekly Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), was directed at the government of Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, but it did not blame Mollet so much as his successor, Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, who was Mollet's Minister of National Defense. Charged I.P.I.: Bourges-Maunoury moved against the press "because of a single political motive: the Algerian affair...
...frequently been in hot water for criticizing Algerian policy, Editor Vial documented such reprisals as the imprisonment of Resistance Heroine Claude Gerard on charges of "endangering external security" with a series of stories from Algeria that appeared in Demain (TIME, June 11, 1956), the weekly organ of Mollet's own Socialist Party...