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Arriving in Moscow aboard an Air France plane, with a party of 60, including outriders and newsmen, France's Premier Guy Mollet made one thing clear at the outset: "France belongs to alliances-I would say even to a community-to which she will remain faithful...
After this little speech at the airport, the French party drove off in one set of black limousines, and the Russian hosts (Bulganin and Molotov, but not Khrushchev) in another. Soon Mollet found that the Russians too could be direct...
...Some of the most brutally frank talk I've ever heard," said Socialist Mollet, emerging from one session...
Midway through his three-day meeting with the Kremlin leaders, Mollet invited the Moscow ambassadors of twelve NATO countries to lunch, to assure them that the Russians now knew they could not split NATO. "It took a Socialist, a man of the left, to convince them," he said. "I fought harder for NATO here in Moscow than I ever did in Paris...
...Diplomats. But whether the subject was disarmament, German reunification, or Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's pet plan for channeling aid to underdeveloped countries through the U.N., reported Paris' Le Monde, it was "a dialogue between deaf men." Once Khrushchev rasped something that startled Mollet into an amazed grin. "I amuse you, don't I?" roared Khrushchev. "If I speak bluntly, it's because I'm not a diplomat." Schoolmasterly Socialist Mollet responded: "Neither...