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With men like these fighting him, Mollet's hopes of taking France into the Common Market seemed likely to go glimmering. Desperately, the Premier sounded out the four co-signers of the colonial motion, asking whether they realized how totally unacceptable it was to the rest of the Common Market nations: Did they want to kill the whole idea...
Unwitting Blunder. The answers were electrifying. Faure, who bears Mollet a deep grudge, had drafted the motion and stood by it. But Laniel confessed that he had never seen the text-"They just read me something over the telephone"-and publicly disavowed it. So did Pinay. Bird-like old Paul Reynaud, 78, determined to make amends for his unwitting blunder, bounced up to the speaker's rostrum to express his wholehearted approval of the Common Market. He was, rasped Reynaud, tired of "anthologies" of reasons for staying out of the Common Market. "These reasons," he said, "resolve into...
Reynaud's ardent support put new heart into the government. Summing up the case for the Common Market, Mollet cried eloquently: "How often between an America sometimes too impulsive, some-times too slow to understand the perils, and a Soviet Union, disquieting and often menacing, have we wished for the existence of a united Europe, a world force not neutral but independent. This dream, this hope is today within our grasp. Have we the right to let it escape...
Resounding No. The answer was a resounding no. By a vote of 331 to 210 the Assembly gave its approval "in principle" to French participation in the Common Market. The 121-vote margin was far handsomer than Mollet had hoped for, and he had achieved it without accepting any troublesome reservations, or having to pose a vote of confidence. But Mollet's victory did not mean that France is irrevocably committed to join the Common Market. Remembering the European Defense Community, which the French Assembly also approved "in principle" only to reject when it came up for final ratification...
...their new six-weeks-old daughter) that he was taking the unusual step of filing for the runoff when he had not even been a candidate in the first election. He flooded the district with 800,000 pamphlets, held a mammoth rally in Paris' biggest arena, charged the Mollet government with "black cowardice" in its concessions to the Algerian Moslems. "Who among you hasn't wished that someone would one day put a bomb in the Assembly?" he cried. "If you want to put in that bomb, vote...