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From a mirrored salon in the ornate Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, mild-mannered Socialist Guy Mollet last week cried out to his countrymen: "I ask every Frenchman to do his duty, to subscribe for Algeria and for France!" In these heroic words Premier Mollet imposed a sweet wartime sacrifice on France's citizens-the moral ob ligation to do a good piece of business at government expense...
Applying the Brakes. Juin gave his blessings to the plan of Socialist Guy Mollet's government to set up "a constitutional and elective regime" that would provide for what Juin called "the necessary application of brakes" against any attempt by a Moslem-dominated regime to violate the "rights of the minority," i.e., Frenchmen. Like other converts, Juin went further: "I hope that such a statute will be presented to the French-Moslem community without waiting for valid representatives to be designated by free elections." The words free elections would make him laugh, he said, "if circumstances were...
...Mollet has indeed developed a federative plan (TIME, June 18) but has hesitated to publicize it while the government position was still officially that pacification must come before negotiations. Juin's switch made it possible for Mollet to take a stand which in other days Juin would have been the first to denounce as a surrender...
There would be outcries from the die hard colons, but Juin had taken the fight out of them. "If Juin drops us, the end is coming," one confessed. But their loss was France's opportunity, and Mollet seized it. He called a Cabinet meeting, laid his plan before it, and announced that he will fly to Algiers this week for a conference with Minister Resident
Nasser's The Philosophy of the Revolution, published two years ago, has now become must reading in Western chancelleries. France's Premier Mollet calls it Nasser's Mein Kampf. In a time of tension, the comparison is pat, but overreaching. Yet, like Mein Kampf, Nasser's little book is a self-revealing portrait of a restless, unstable man intoxicated with vast ambitions. Excerpts...