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...they must first reckon with that great spoiler of dreams, the French National Assembly. Last week the Assembly debated the bold plan for a Common Market (TIME, Jan. 28) that would give six Western European nations a tariff-free trading area nearly as big as the U.S. Premier Guy Mollet, so optimis tic at first, was shaken and depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other...
Open Windows. Only a few points remain to be hammered out to make the Common Market a reality, and, barring "unforeseen catastrophes," its sponsors hope to have the Common Market treaty ready for signing by the end of February. Last week French Premier Guy Mollet, who was cagily insisting that he must have parliamentary approval "in principle"before he signed the treaty, launched a full-fledged debate on the plan in France's National Assembly...
...Mollet was prepared to stake the life of his government on the vote he demanded. Would the French Assembly now try to undo every compromise French negotiators had made? Warned Foreign Minister Christian Pineau: "It is not necessary to travel abroad much to discover that in the last five years France has acquired a reputation for being unable to make up its mind. If we say no to the- Common Market, we will convince the entire world of our inability...
...Sickened by successive retreats from Indo-China, Morocco and Tunisia, and enraged by the withdrawal from Port Said, many among the professional officers of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria appeared determined that the French army must not be involved in yet another retreat from empire. Should Mollet show signs of giving in to Algerian demands for independence, much of the army might well support Algeria's reactionary French colons in open defiance of the government...
...Mollet had actually restated his intentions largely for its effect on the U.N., whose Afro-Asian members have once again called for a General Assembly debate on Algeria. For the first time, the French have agreed to let the matter be debated. But, reiterated the Premier, Algeria is a French domestic problem, and "I must ask the U.N. not to interfere." Quai d'Orsay officials privately warned American correspondents that if the U.S. votes for any resolution recognizing U.N. authority to intervene in Algeria it would seriously jeopardize Franco-American friendship...