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...Algerian question both menaces and ensures the stability of De Gaulle's regime. Such old pols as Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet and ex-President Vincent Auriol are eager to take over control of the state-but not until the Algerian time bomb has either exploded under De Gaulle or been defused...
...Gaulle to the gallows!" shouted the European mobs in Oran and Algiers to whom he had once been hero. They had been powerful enough in 1956 to rout Premier Guy Mollet with a barrage of tomatoes and dangerous enough in 1958 to bring down the Fourth Republic. Now they threatened death or disfiguration if President Charles de Gaulle dared to set foot in Algeria...
...Gaulle in and editor of La France Libre the war, Aron appraised the efforts of the President of the Fifth Republic since June, 1958 as "a transfer of ambiguity." De Gaulle's offer of "The of the Brave" was merely a of the policy of the French since Mollet, Aron said. It provided for a referendum among association, federation, and independence to cease-fire and a cooling-off period...
...expensive project to give France a nuclear "striking force" of its own. Cracked one deputy: "It is too small to frighten our enemies and just large enough to keep our friends from helping us." If France builds up its nuclear force outside of NATO, argued Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, so could West Germany. He asked: "In the name of what principle will you oppose tomorrow Germany's demands for what you yourself ask today...
...World War II Pétainist who barely escaped arrest when the Free French reached Algiers, bald, spectacled Alain de Sérigny has long been the uncontested respectable leader of Algiers' European community, helped incite by his savage editorials the settlers' 1956 manhandling of Premier Guy Mollet (TIME, Feb. 20, 1956) and the 1958 uprising that sparked De Gaulle's return to power...