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...talked on the telephone with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, sent off messages on the cease-fire to France's Premier Guy Mollet and to India's Prime Minister Nehru; he met with his defense and diplomatic advisers to discuss the whole pattern of developments in Europe. But by 7:30 p.m. the President was engaged in the pursuit that occupied most citizens of the land. Dressed in sports coat and slacks, he sat down to dinner in the living room on the second floor of the White House with Mamie, his son. Major John Eisenhower, and John...
...realize that there are much more dangerous animals wandering about than Great Britain and France." The knowledge that the Russian bear, stung by his own wounds, might blunder into the Middle East gave pause to everyone-even, in the end, to Anthony Eden and to France's Guy Mollet...
...somebody in Paris. The somebody in Paris turned out to be hawk-nosed Socialist Max Lejeune, Secretary of State for the armed forces and close friend of Algeria's tough Minister Resident Lacoste, opponent of a liberal line in Algeria. Lejeune cautiously hinted of the operation to Premier Mollet, who had promised the Sultan and Bourguiba that the rebels would enjoy immunity. Mollet snapped: "Definitely...
...Trick. Notwithstanding, Lejeune gave the go-ahead to the intelligence officers. He apparently counted on the French Cabinet's current impatience with the Sultan. After all, when the Sultan's 28-year-old son had discussed with Mollet the possibility of talking to the Algerian rebels, Mollet had agreed as long as it was done unspectacularly. Instead the Sultan had welcomed the rebel leaders to his palace, had been photographed with them and had issued a joint communique...
...Tunis an ashen-faced Sultan heard the whispered news after parading with Bourguiba to the cheers of 370,000 Tunisians. In Paris Guy Mollet gasped: "It's crazy. I don't believe it." At a midnight conference Mollet accepted the accomplished fact, and the immediate political advantage it gave him. Next morning all Parisian newspapers except the Communist L'H'umanite cheered the French kidnaping. Mollet, declining to surrender rebels "already condemned by French justice,"* won a massive 330-140 vote of confidence. Only ex-Premier Pierre Mendés-France asked whether "those who organized...