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...Mollet accepted an invitation to meet with Eisenhower at the White House for a two-day conference beginning...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11--President Eisenhower will hold separate conferences with British Prime Minister Macmillan and French Premier Mollet in a bid to warm up chilly relations between this country and its two traditional allies...
...presenting Premier Guy Mollet with the complete works of famed French Author Stendhal last week, members of the French government did more than celebrate Mollet's first year* in office. They underlined a noteworthy fact: Socialist Mollet (who has survived 32 votes of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies) continues to be Premier because the vast majority of Frenchmen and their deputies support his Algerian policy, which might be defined as a policy of the right enforced by a man of the left...
Seeking Stendhalian clarity on this point, Mollet last week addressed a letter to 34 party leaders (not including Communists or Poujadists). Wrote Mollet: "The chiefs of the Algerian rebellion . . . will refuse to accept our offer of a cease-fire so long as they can hope that France may change its Algerian policy ... It is important . . . that there be no misunderstanding about the continuity of the policy during the present legislature . . ." On the eve of the critical U.N. debate on Algeria, Mollet asked for and got a blank check...
...charged with the job of demonstrating French control over the Arab population (which outnumbers the French by nearly nine to one), had his task complicated by French counterterrorists, known locally as Ultras, who are mostly poorly employed veterans of colonial wars in Morocco and Indo-China. They fear that Mollet's government plans to "abandon" Algeria...