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...exasperation one day last month, French Premier Guy Mollet turned on Christian Pineau, his Foreign Minister, who was fretting about what the U.N. would do with the troublesome Algerian problem. "What matters to me," snapped Mollet, "is not the United Nations but the United States." To hard-headed Guy Mollet it seemed self-evident that the treatment given the two-year-old Algerian revolt in the glass palace on the East River would be largely determined along the banks of the Potomac...
Mollet was prepared to stake the life of his government on the vote he demanded. Would the French Assembly now try to undo every compromise French negotiators had made? Warned Foreign Minister Christian Pineau: "It is not necessary to travel abroad much to discover that in the last five years France has acquired a reputation for being unable to make up its mind. If we say no to the- Common Market, we will convince the entire world of our inability...
...also had the welcome mat out for old, if recently estranged, friends. A Washington caller last week: French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, paving the way for a possible call by Premier Guy Mollet. England's Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly...
...France, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau insisted that it is now "more necessary than ever to realize the unification of Europe. For France it is perhaps a question of life or death. At the very least, it is a question of our national independence." All over Europe there was a new rush of talk about a "third force," but this time with a difference. In the words of Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, "the third force is not an attempt to neutralize Europe and place her at an equal distance between America and Russia. On the contrary...
...consultative body to develop a "common Western policy" for areas both inside and outside the NATO areas. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano suggested an amendment to the treaty itself which would require each NATO nation to consult others on problems affecting the alliance. France's Christian Pineau wanted obligatory consultation on all foreign policies. Even more grandiosely, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd suggested a "grand design" of an Atlantic Pact superstate complete with parliament...