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...words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners? he asked. "Classrooms for our children," responded...
...Know Me." If they did not vote for him, said Mollet amiably on parting, they should vote for any representative of a "national" party: "I ask only one thing of you: don't vote Bolshevik!" Even flamboyant Jacques Soustelle, De Gaulle's Minister of Information, who masterminded the May 13 revolt in Algeria, was running a low-keyed campaign. His election posters read: "You know me; you know what I've done; you know what I will...
...deplores violence, the Algerian war at first seemed an unmitigated disaster. During the early months of the revolt he tried to act as an intermediary between the F.L.N. and the French. But in February 1956, when a shower of rotten tomatoes thrown by Algiers colons frightened Socialist Premier Guy Mollet into taking a "tough line" in Algeria, Abbas lost the last of his faith in French good will. Within three months he dissolved his own party, the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto, and turned up at rebel headquarters in Cairo, where he told a press conference: "There is only...
With no sizable community of French colons to harass and badger it, the Paris government has been able to conduct a far more consistent policy than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations...
...March. Malraux's vision of victory was one calculated to appeal to millions of Frenchmen. But its details evoked black anger among the diehard European ultras of Algeria, determined to maintain their privileged position though the heavens fall. This week, accompanied by Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, the Cabinet minister most hated by the ultras, De Gaulle staked his future-and that of France-on another dramatic trip to Algiers...