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Anti-Americanism. Secretary Dulles resisted the invitation to snap back at French Premier Guy Mollet and other overseas critics of U.S. policies (see FOREIGN NEWS). "I feel the fact that those criticisms are made, freely made," he said, "is one of the greatest tributes to the U.S. that could be made. Because all those countries know that they can criticize the U.S. without any fear of any reprisals, or that we will change the principles which actuate us. We are not trying to run a popularity contest, and we don't give or withhold assistance on the basis...
Socialist Premier Guy Mollet is a Frenchman who seems so shy and timid that in World War II the Gestapo once let him go, after arresting him as a Resistance leader, because they could not believe he had the requisite tough qualities. Last week this deceptively mild ex-high-school teacher of English stirred up an international commotion by challenging the foundations of Western policy and criticizing France's allies (particularly the U.S.) in terms more caustic than any other French Premier has used since the days of Charles de Gaulle...
...interview with U.S. News & World Report, Mollet declared that Americans have bestowed their "fantastic" sums of financial aid so "haughtily" and with so much "preaching" that they have made themselves "detested" round the world. The U.S., he said, is overemphasizing the military side of its policy, and so letting the Communists steal peace as a weapon of propaganda. From the time both the U.S. and Russia exploded the H-bomb, Mollet has "never believed" in the threat of a major Soviet attack, and in his opinion the position the U.S., Britain and France took at Geneva last summer, in putting...
Patriot's Proof. At a time when critics from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet...
...Mollet, in his ten weeks as chief of France's first Socialist-run government in eight years, has had frustratingly little chance to carry out Socialist policies. Like most Socialists a visceral pacifist, he has been compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military...