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...plan for "a world economic development agency" under U.N. Designed to include the Russians and to prevent an economic cold war, it envisioned a central bank to make long-term loans and a worldwide system of price supports for raw materials produced by underdeveloped countries. Pineau and Premier Guy Mollet are scheduled to visit Moscow late this month. Most of Pineau's colleagues suspected his plan was chiefly intended to make a good impression in advance...
...Quadrillage (cross-ruling), to carry out what Premier Guy Mollet calls "a policy of presence." Small garrisons of ten or more men will be set up at some 20,000 sensitive spots throughout the country-at bridges, crossroads, in villages. Quadrillage ties up enormous numbers of troops, but is intended to reassure the Europeans that they and their property will be protected, and to provide Moslems with a visible reminder that the French are in Algeria to stay. As soon as an area is pacified by quadrillage, the French hope to organize pilot, mixed elections as evidence of their good...
Show of Force. The double policy is enormously demanding on French manpower. Quadrillage will require 200,000 men. Grenouillage requires another 150,000. By mid-May, the Mollet government has promised 75,000 men drawn from reserves to add to the 210,000 France already has in Algeria, another 100,000 more by fall, if needed. Says Mollet hopefully: "We want to show force so we don't have to use it-or use it as little as possible...
...weeks Algeria's Minister Resident Robert Lacoste had been insisting he needed at least 100,000 more troops to restore order in Algeria. For weeks schoolmasterly Socialist Premier Guy Mollet put off the decision. He knew that France's military barrel was empty, and that reinforcements could be found only through the politically unpopular method of recalling reservists. And as a Socialist, he had campaigned on a liberal program of "peace in Algeria," based on concessions and negotiations. Last week Lacoste flew back to Paris and threatened to resign unless the troops were forthcoming. Faced with the hard...
...months ago, Mollet might have sympathized with the words written by the left-wing editor Claude Bourdet in his weekly L'Observateur: "One hundred thousand young Frenchmen are threatened with being thrown into the 'dirty war' of Algeria, with losing the best years of their lives, perhaps with being wounded, indeed killed, for a cause few among them approve." But now, in a panicky gesture that reflects the government's skittishness, Editor Bourdet was unceremoniously arrested by Mollet's government, accused of spreading "demoralization...