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Ever since the division of Charlemagne's empire, France and Germany have quarreled over the tiny but valuable Saar. Last week, without fanfare, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and France's Guy Mollet solved the problem to the satisfaction of all concerned, including the 987,650 German-speaking, German-thinking Saarlanders themselves. The Germans gained politically, the French economically. The terms...
...center is collapsing, my right retreats, the situation is excellent, I shall attack." That mild-mannered ex-school master, Premier Guy Mollet, pulled out his copybook last week and took a timely lesson from Marshal Foch at the 1918 Battle of the Marne. Deserted by his coalition partner, Mendes-France, under withering bombardment from all sides for his handling of the North African crisis, Socialist Mollet marched out to demand a vote of confidence from the Assembly...
...Right had been all set to shell him for freeing Tunisia and Morocco without winning Arab help in pacifying Algeria. But after Mendes-France pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time...
Winding up the cannonade, Mollet attacked Communists who "organize demonstrations in railway stations when reservists are leaving" and "call for a ceasefire in Algeria." Said Mollet: "I, too, am a partisan of a ceasefire, but these people make the demand only on France." Though the vote was not due until this week, Mollet appeared likely to win-for as Mollet himself quipped "everybody wants my blood but nobody wants...
...French Minister Resident in Algeria. Last month Reporter Gerard spent ten days with three rebel units in the Berber area and in western Constantine, made a forced march with them. Back in Paris, she wrote her story for the new Socialist weekly Demain, which generally backs Premier Guy Mollet's foreign policy but opposes him on Algeria. Staunchly anticolonialist, the story referred to the rebels throughout as "le Maquis"-a name synonymous in France with the glory of the undercover fight against the Nazis...