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...addition to such political familiars as Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin and Antoine Pinay, Premier Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet includes these interesting new faces...
...scouts"-even harsher medicine was in store. De Gaulle's Cabinet included no diehard colonialists and not one of the men involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay as Minister of Finance. Those right-wing Algerian French ultras who had gleefully plotted the downfall of Pierre Pilimlin's government were shocked and disheartened by Pflimlin's appearance in the De Gaulle Cabinet...
...eleventh hour, the "republicans" buried their ancient, obscure quarrels. Socialist Guy Mollet, who for a month had been proclaiming his party's unwillingness to participate in any conceivable government, hastily agreed to serve as Pflimlin's Vice Premier, and said he would even be willing to serve as Under Secretary of Beaux-Arts. In the Assembly, Pflimlin demanded emergency powers -the right to hold suspects without trial, to make searches at any hour, to deport citizens from troubled areas, to impose full censorship and to close movies, theaters and cafes. Working with unprecedented speed, the Deputies gave...
Once before, when the Frenchmen of Algiers were convinced that a government in Paris was ready to sell them out, they had put on such an ugly demonstration that a shaken Socialist Premier, Guy Mollet, pelted by tomatoes, had given up all plans for a liberal deal with Algeria's Moslems. Now, the Algerian colons reasoned, another new French government threatened to be "soft" in Algeria and needed a scare. Some among the crowds that gathered in the streets of Algiers were not content to leave it at that...
Since 1953 the French production growth of about 10% a year has matched Germany's, and exceeded that of all other countries in Europe. But massive outlays for supplies abroad, plus the war in Algeria, plus openhanded spending under Guy Mollet's Socialist government at home, reduced gold and hard-money reserves to an untouchable minimum. Overbuying of raw materials last year and speculation against the franc helped put foreign trade out of balance by $1.4 billion...