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There are other names for him too. London's Tory Daily Mail calls him "Hitler on the Nile." The Peking press coos: "Egyptian brother." France's Premier Guy Mollet has called him "a megalomaniac" dictator. "This is how Fascist governments behave," warns Sir Anthony Eden. The Cairo press calls him "savior of the people," the Israelis say "highway robber," "treacherous wolf." Nehru's private verdict: "Too young and inexperienced." To France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, Nasser is "a congenital liar...
...expropriated company was one of France's bluest chips. But this was not the real basis of the French reaction. The nation is deep in a costly and frustrating struggle in Algeria, and chief aider and abettor of the rebels is Dictator Nasser. When Premier Guy Mollet ordered two-thirds of the French navy and a Moroccan division to be ready "to impose" a solution in the Suez, one Parisian growled: "Well worth it. We'd be cutting the serpent's head instead of hacking off its tail...
...strongest show of unity in the Fourth Republic's history, the Assembly (150 Communists dissenting) voted to back the show of force, in a resolution condemning Nasser as "a permanent menace to peace." Observing the all-Communist opposition, Socialist Mollet said bitterly: "It is sufficient for a cause to be anti-French for Communists to support it. It is a question now, if the Nasser-Shepilov pact will have the same result as the pact of Hitler and Molotov...
...regions. By the beginning of summer, the rebels were losing their enthusiasm for open combat, and in the Kabylia alone 250 villages once again "rallied to France." With the military campaign going so well, the French government decided it was time to try the second phase of Premier Guy Mollet's policy for pacifying Algeria-the "parallel" program of political and economic reform. As their pilot project, which they christened Operation Esperance (Operation Hope), authorities expropriated from a French landholding company a 600-acre farm near the Kabylia town of Saint Lucien and announced that 16 Moslem fellahin would...
...under a certain domination . . . and I certainly believe they should be free") and a firm one for Red China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling a few people sitting on Formosa China?"). Then, moving on to Paris, he strongly pressured French Premier Guy Mollet to negotiate a cease-fire in Algeria. But when pressed for specific suggestions, Nehru retreated to Delphi. "I am Foreign Minister of India, not France or Algeria," he said...