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...Communists had just signed an agreement to collaborate with two major non-Communist parties-the Socialists and Radicals -and a group of small but highly influential leftist "political clubs." Seated quietly beside Rochet, in a grand display of their new-found unity, were Socialist Party Secretary-General Guy Mollet and François Mitterrand, president of the powerful Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left...
There was no guarantee that all parties would adhere to the pact. Despite Communist objections, the democratic leftists announced that in some elections they might throw their support behind candidates of Jean Lecanuet's Progressive Catholic Party. (Cracked Socialist Mollet: "Hell does not begin just to the right of the Radical Party.") The Socialist vice president of the National Assembly, Jean Montalat, went even one step further. Pact or no pact, he warned stoutly, he would refuse to bow out to a Communist if he faced a run-off election...
...weld France's traditionally splintered left and center parties into a functioning opposition that could seriously challenge the Gaullists-if not now, then in the future. The Christian-Democratic Popular Republicans seem willing enough to submerge themselves in Defferre's federation; it is the Socialists' Guy Mollet who has so far shown no sympathy with the plan. But with the election now only six months away, the pressures on Mollet are considerable. As Le Monde observed: "If the possibility of defeating De Gaulle exists, it is through the federation...
Even a Yacht. Some of Defferre's fellow Socialists began to squirm as well. Uneasiest of all was Party Secretary Guy Mollet, who has long been jealous of Defferre's growing power in the party and his even wider appeal to the nation. When the governing board of the Socialist Party met last week at its Paris headquarters just off Place Pigalle, Mollet fought hard to stop the Socialists from naming anyone as a presidential candidate-at least at this moment. But of the 43 Socialists present at last week's meeting, fully 35 backed Defferre...
Last week Defferre, Mollet and an eight-member Socialist delegation returned from Moscow, where they had a nine-hour conference with Nikita Khrushchev. A few years ago such a mission to Moscow would have been political suicide for Socialists. But things are different in the balmy atmosphere of the East-West détente. In Moscow, Mollet claims to have detected a tendency of Communism "to orient itself toward truly democratic formulas." To most connoisseurs of Communism, such talk is dangerous nonsense. But French Socialist leaders insist that they have high hopes for a possible deal with the Reds...