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...Comrades, we know how to pay back. Now in this fight which broke out on the Hungarian question, what did we get? We got absolute unity and the rallying of the Communist ranks of the world. Yugoslavia remained isolated, and who spoke in its favor? Dulles, Eisenhower, Guy Mollet and so forth and so forth. What a group! Socialism that gets help from Dulles smells...
...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...
...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...
Waiting Man. Declining President Coty's invitation to try again, outgoing Socialist Premier Guy Mollet instead recommended Radical Socialist René Billéres, who had been Education Minister in Mollet's recently defeated government. Billeres backed away ("I didn't consider myself qualified"), but he had a candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named...
Condemned as a Socialist, Mollet chose to meet the end like one. Wearily climbing the podium, he delivered a lackluster speech which revealed his own uncertainty about Algerian policy. Then, reaching into his pocket, he produced a brochure and like a park-bench orator began intoning: "I have here a small document given to every new member of the Socialist Party, containing not only the rules but a declaration of principles." Exploded Independent Deputy Roland de Moustier: "Enough propaganda! Your ministers spend their Sundays making Socialist speeches when they should be working." Unruffled, Mollet read out a paragraph about labor...