Word: mollet
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Villains: Eden, Mollet, Ben-Gurion...
...government's case falls to the ground." The main theme of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's defense was to show that while "it is true that we were well aware of the possibility of trouble," there was no secret agreement between Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Guy Mollet and David Ben-Gurion over the timing of their respective attacks on Egypt, and that there was neither deceit nor fraud in Eden's declared objective of "separating the combatants" and "removing the risk to free passage of the canal...
Hitler and Benito passed to history with the tag "war criminals." What is the name for these two fools - Mollet and Eden - who set the world on fire...
...anguish from Riviera hotelkeepers, who estimate tourist traffic is already off 75%. Housewives caught the panic, and driven by the memory of what items were scarce in World War II, stripped shops of soap, candles, rice, canned goods and sugar (though France actually has a sugar surplus). Premier Guy Mollet pleaded for calm and discipline, scolded: "During the last few days, a new wave of fear seems to have broken over part of France...
...Egypt, last week goaded Old Socialist Norman Thomas into unwonted words of praise for the Eisenhower Administration. In a letter to 21 of the papers that carry the Alsops' column, Thomas marveled at the Alsops' "extraordinary adventure in support of the blundering Eden and the sorry socialist, Mollet." Said Thomas: "Suppose (as the Alsops would have it) that the U.N., with the President's approval, had put off a cease-fire in the Middle East. We might already have been caught in the first stages of that new world war which there is still hope of avoiding...