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...accepted Communist support during last year's voting for Parliament in order to give his slate a better chance against Gaullist candidates (three out of five Socialists in his department did win). Chief supporter of the unity maneuver is Defferre's noted fellow Socialist, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who for years rigorously attacked the Reds as being "not left, but East," then did a significant turnabout in the same parliamentary elections. Local Red candidates in his constituency withdrew in Mollet's favor, and Mollet for his part obligingly called for a "public dialogue" between Socialists and Communists...
...Afterward the five-Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin, Rene Pleven and Rene Mayer-were invited to luncheon at the Metz prefecture by De Gaulle's representative, Minister of State Louis Joxe. But the ex-Premiers declined the invitation when they learned that Schuman's old friend Jean Monnet, who was also present, had been left out of the party...
...presidential fever has spread to all parties. On the non-Gaullist side, possible candidates range from Antoine Pinay (at 71, he may be too old) to the last Premier of the Fourth Republic, Pierre Pflimlin, to the glib Radical spokesman, Maurice Faure. The Socialists have contenders in veteran Guy Mollet and the shrewd, affable mayor of Marseille. Gaston Defferre...
...France to vote against the old-line parties and support his candidates, who were guardians all of "the good of the state, the fate of the Republic, the future of France." The most damaging blow to old-line parties was struck by one of their most respected leaders. Socialist Mollet. An implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social traitor" and "America's man." But with that fatal French excess of cleverness. Mollet declared that Socialists losing in the first round should support Communist candidates rather than Gaullists...
...Mollet's proposal was immediately trumpeted across France by the right-wing press and the government's unabashedly partisan TV and radio network, which reminded Frenchmen of the unsavory Socialist -Communist -Radical "Popular Front" government that unforgettably permitted Hitler to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936. Backing away from Mollet's blunder, Socialist Party strategists in such strongholds as Marseille refused to make any deals with the Communists. In dozens of constituencies, including Mollet's, Communist candidates who scored heavily in the election's first round did in fact withdraw in favor of Socialists and other...