Word: mollet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World War II Pétainist who barely escaped arrest when the Free French reached Algiers, bald, spectacled Alain de Sérigny has long been the uncontested respectable leader of Algiers' European community, helped incite by his savage editorials the settlers' 1956 manhandling of Premier Guy Mollet (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956) and the 1958 uprising that sparked De Gaulle's return to power...
...when the tally was announced, Socialist. ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who was the first important leader of the left to rally to General de Gaulle 18 months ago, solemnly warned Premier Debré: "When great tasks-the Franco-African community, Algeria, international affairs-require the greatest national unity, you choose at that very moment to introduce the most terrible element of discord. You triumph, but I do not envy...