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...when the tally was announced, Socialist. ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who was the first important leader of the left to rally to General de Gaulle 18 months ago, solemnly warned Premier Debré: "When great tasks-the Franco-African community, Algeria, international affairs-require the greatest national unity, you choose at that very moment to introduce the most terrible element of discord. You triumph, but I do not envy...
...voice last week that "the governments of the United Arab Republic and the United Kingdom have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations at the level of chargé d'affaires." Harried, tight-lipped Selwyn Lloyd is the last survivor in office of the luckless foursome of Eden, Lloyd, Mollet and Pineau, who together planned the ill-fated invasion of Suez...
Recumbent Wishes. In 1957, full of years, Herriot died at 84. Ex-Premier Guy Mollet called him "the very incarnation of the Republic." Said ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France: "For 34 years I have admired, followed and loved him." Herriot's free-thinking friends were at first startled, and then indignant, to hear that on his deathbed, Lifelong Agnostic Edouard Herriot had gone back into the Roman Catholic Church, and been buried with church ritual...
...band of Algerian rebels murdered and mutilated scores of French civilians in the mining town of El Alia, Soustelle turned implacably hostile toward negotiations with the rebel F.L.N., called for all-out military suppression. So congenial did the settlers find his new attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
Last week, faced by dissension from those who wanted a more intensive leftism, Mollet told a party congress: "If tomorrow the party wishes to form other policies, for example, a foreign policy called neutralism, or domestically, to travel part of the road with the Communists, then it will be someone beside myself who will make these policies...