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Next day, Noël blandly withdrew his amendment. It had lost its "utility," he explained. Socialist Chief Guy Mollet tried to bring the Deputies to a sense of reality with the most forceful speech of the twelve-day debate-and the first with high praise for the U.S.'s role. "Why is the question of German rearmament posed?" asked Mollet. "It's because of the policy conducted by the Soviet Union which menaces the peace of the world, and denies liberty to millions of men." Only the presence of U.S. troops in Europe could prevent...
...kinetic little Premier remains widely liked and admired by the French people, and the only man since Charles de Gaulle who has given France a sense of cohesion, direction and escape from stagnation. Even Guy Mollet, the Socialist Party secretary, recognized this last week when he labeled Mendès "the second-best possible Premier"-meaning that if France could not have a Socialist Premier, then Pierre Mendès-France was the next best...
Mendes reasoned correctly. At an urgent conference, the Socialist rank and file overruled their wavering leader, Guy Mollet, and pledged all their party's 105 votes to the Premier. "Voila, un miracle!" huffed an anti-Mendes Deputy when he heard the news. "Since the government decided to increase wages ... it is assured a comfortable majority...
Mendes did not stop with the Assembly vote on the London agreement, but drove for a bigger prize: Socialist participation in his government. On the telephone he offered Guy Mollet four Cabinet posts in return for Socialist support. Asked Mollet: Who will select the ministers? Answered Mendes: "Moi." Soon it was common knowledge that Socialist support of the government was only a matter of time...
...debates of EDC's governing Council of Ministers. By this formula of "association, but not membership," the British will still be free to withdraw their troops from Europe whenever they like; yet their move was enough to give EDC another boost in France. Guy Mollet, leader of the influential (105 seats) French Socialists, hinted that a majority of his party might now be willing to vote for ratification...