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...Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet, the other architect of the Suez failure, fell from power in his turn, but France fought out its frustrations in Algeria, where 39,931 perished in the year's most bitter...
...when the National Assembly duly mowed down Socialist Guy Mollet by a vote of 290 to 227, and the French national radio did not even bother to stay on the air to announce the result. But it was also the fifth week of the crisis. Irritably, conscientious President René Coty, 75, summoned his confidential aide, barked: "I want a man tonight. Get me Felix Gaillard...
Last week President René Coty went back to the man he had tried first-durable, hardheaded Socialist Guy Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform...
...your President, but I am not the sweeper in this house." Thus snapped Antoine Pinay, when members of his Independent Party pressured him to take on the job of trying to form a new government. Two other Premiers had already tried and failed: Socialist Guy Mollet, representing the biggest bloc (100 seats) among the parties who more or less govern France, and Rene Pleven, whose left-center U.D.S.R. is the smallest (7 seats...
...home of 1,200,000 Europeans and 8,000,000 Arabs. It is also a burying ground for some 5,000 French soldiers, roughly 36,000 Algerian terrorists, and 200,000 civilians. It is responsible, directly or indirectly for the fall of three French governments--Mendes-France in 1955, Mollet and Bourges-Manoury in 1957. Its problems have become the source of bad relations between the French and Morocco and Tunisia and between the French and the United States...