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This has landed Socialist Mollet, who is no Popular Fronter,* in the bear's hug embrace of the Soviets. At a Moscow reception last week Nikita Khrushchev turned jubilantly to Foreign Minister Molotov and said: "Do you remember how we defended this [disarmament] position at Geneva and then did not insist on it when we saw that it was irreconcilable with the Western stand?" Without giving Molotov time to answer, Khrushchev added: "Now Mollet is saying what we said...
...sounding off as he did, Premier Mollet reflects a Europe-wide mood that is increasingly jeopardizing NATO's purpose. Iceland's Parliament has called for withdrawal of NATO troops from the island on the ground that tensions have eased so much since Geneva. In answer to Mollet, the Bonn government last week sent Paris a bristling note that all but accused the French Premier of adopting the Soviet line. Germans thought they heard in Mollet the dawn echoes of a familiar French dream: an unspoken alliance with Russia against a strong Germany...
...Geneva Summit meeting killed the fear on which NATO was built." At ceremonies outside Paris last week marking NATO's seventh anniversary, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther put an optimistic face on things, and tried to get abreast of the new trend. As if acknowledging some force to Mollet's charges of exaggerated preoccupation with military matters, Gruenther said: "Because NATO has so grown in stature and in military strength . . . NATO can now move with greater strength into other [social and economic] fields. We at SHAPE are pleased that the time has now come when greater emphasis can also...
...length away from Gruenther stood Premier Mollet, solemn in black Homburg. When it came his turn to speak, he seized the occasion to pledge anew his government's dedication to the NATO alliance. "I need not repeat to you," he said, "that France will re-establish at the very earliest possible moment the full strength of her contribution to the common defense on continental soil...
...need for France to give such a reassurance stems partly from the kind of remark made recently by Socialist Pineau: "We want to remain a link between the blocs, but without renouncing our friendships." To become a link between East and West, said Mollet, correcting his Foreign Minister, France would have to "cease to belong to the West...