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...reason for the rise in napoleons is not hard to find, even though France is enjoying good times and has even hung on to the same Premier (Socialist Guy Mollet) for six months now. Two weeks ago the Mollet government gave France the bad tax news to accompany the increase in old-age pensions that the Assembly recently approved. This will add $400 million to the tax bill, to be met by surtaxes on salaries, by an added six francs on the price of every aperitif, and by a special tax on automobiles, rigged to discriminate against U.S. cars. (Cars...
Banker in Buchenwald. Six months ago, when Premier Guy Mollet named Pineau, rather than mercurial Pierre Mendes-France, as Foreign Minister, most of France's Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize...
Link Between Blocs. Barely had Pineau moved into the Foreign Ministry, however, when his penchant for negotiating with serpents asserted itself. Two hours after an announcement that he and Premier Mollet had accepted an invitation to Moscow (TIME, March 12), Pineau unleashed a stinging attack on France's Allies for their failure to come forth with a "policy of peace." Said Pineau: "I shall systematically orient French policy toward cultural exchanges between East and West." In another speech Pineau gave France an even stronger push toward neutralism. Said he: "We want to remain a link between the blocs without...
Though the concept of France as a "link" was promptly and publicly disavowed by Mollet, Pineau continued to plump for greater trust in Russia, with more fervor and eloquence than any other statesman in Western Europe. Last week, on the eve of his departure for the U.S. (his twelfth visit since the war, his first as Foreign Minister), Pineau said that it is wrong to wonder if Soviet leaders sincerely desire peace. "In diplomacy," he observed, "facts are more important than intentions." He went on to argue that the West must take immediate steps to "liquidate" the cold war. Then...
...Mollet does not expect to launch his plan until 1) France's army establishes a position of strength in Algeria, 2) he gets some assurance of a favorable reaction from Algerian nationalists...