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Share the honor between Dag Hammarskjold and Nasser. For the Tyrants of the Year, how about Eden and Mollet for a start...
...meat for Labor's Big Bad Wolf. Said Bevan: "It is believed in France that the French [government] knew about the Israeli intention. If the French knew, did they tell the British government? The fact is that all these long telephone conversations and conferences between M. Guy Mollet, M. Pineau and the Prime Minister are intelligible only on the assumption that something was being cooked up." Bevan had his own picturesque fable for the situation. "Did Marianne take John Bull to an unknown rendezvous? Did Marianne say to John Bull that there was a forest fire going to start...
...French were franker than the Brit ish about Suez. Said Socialist Premier Guy Mollet last week: "We did not tell President Eisenhower about the Franco-British invasion, because if we had, the U.S. would have insisted on our stopping." Mollet did not acknowledge that the main French objective was to unseat Nasser, but the failure to achieve this aim was threatening the life of his government last week...
...outset every party (except the Communists) had supported Mollet's Suez policy. Last week the same Deputies were bitterly divided. Those who had been against aggression, but afraid to speak out, were condemning Mollet in almost the same terms as those who favoring aggression, now resented his failure to finish the job. Mollet's own Socialist Party was split last week: 17 Socialist Deputies, including former Minister of Interior Jules Moch, demanded an extraordinary national party congress to review Mollet's record. The Radical Socialist Party headed by Pierre Mendès-France threatened to withdraw...
...would succeed Mollet? Mollet has held office for 10½ months, longer than any one expected him to, proving himself an abler politician than he was given credit for being. He lasted largely because he has faced up to disagreeable tasks (e.g., drafting soldiers for Algeria) that few other French politicians relished. With gas rationing, unemployment and inflation building up, and no Algerian solution in sight, the problems facing the next Premier appear even less attractive. No obvious candidate has yet appeared, but ingenious solutions were being peddled, including a "Syndicat des anciens," or a Cabinet composed entirely...