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...strictly military basis, the operation seemed an expensive way of killing 14 rebels. But it symbolized an end to a long period of hesitation and half-hearted temporizing by a Socialist government trying to fight off the label of "war party." A month ago Premier Guy Mollet had offered the Algerian rebels a "last chance'' to lay down their arms, and the rebels had answered only with bullets. Last week France was buckling down to a full-scale war in Algeria...
North African nationalists were outraged by the Dillon speech, which Algerian Leader Messali Hadj called "contrary to the principles of American democracy." Frenchmen, however, cheered it. Said French Premier Guy Mollet: "President Eisenhower and Mr. Dillon are great friends of France. I want to express my thanks and those of my country to both of them...
...urgency was expressed in a pulling together of policy, a tentative reshaping of plans. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Douglas Dillon made clear the U.S. attitude toward France and North Africa. All three big Western powers moved to concert policies elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Premier Guy Mollet urged that the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in Paris to discuss Middle East policies, suggested that the time was coming to ask for a U.N. embargo on the sale of arms either to Arab or Jew. Britain warned both sides that it would take "swift military action" if war broke out across...
Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...
Passing Fancy? Whoever won in any such contest between thugs of the right and left, the center voices of moderation would be likely to lose. In France, the moderate's voice is getting harder to hear. Every day, as the Mollet government fumbles, Frenchmen die in Algeria, French anger and disgust swells, Poujade's dynamic appeal grows more persuasive to many disillusioned Frenchmen. "It is getting painful to be French," observed Novelist Albert Camus recently...