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North Africa. Dulles got ready to listen to the well-telegraphed argument of France's visiting Foreign Minister Pineau (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the U.S. ought to help the French pacify the Algerian nationalists. Deputy Under Secretary Murphy heard out the protests of Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine (speaking for eight Arab nations) that the French army was already using U.S. war materiel against "the national liberation movement," and that NATO was becoming "a direct means to support colonialism." The U.S. subtly indicated its own feelings on North Africa by elevating a new diplomatic mission at Rabat, capital of newly...
Feather and the Salmon, a fairy tale written some years ago by Christian Pineau, now France's Foreign Minister, tells of a little boy who is carried on a salmon's back to an island inhabited only by birds and a man-eating serpent. The boy, undismayed at the sight of the bones of previous victims, succeeds in establishing good relations with the serpent...
With all the other reading they have to do, it is unlikely that any of the shapers of U.S. foreign policy ever took time out to read Feather and the Salmon. Last week as elegant, 51-year-old Christian Pineau arrived in the U.S. "to coordinate our policies," it was apparent that they might have missed something...
Banker in Buchenwald. Six months ago, when Premier Guy Mollet named Pineau, rather than mercurial Pierre Mendes-France, as Foreign Minister, most of France's Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize...
...seems to matter that leaders cannot agree. Everybody seems pleased enough just to meet and differ (the Russians are able to show their people how diligently they are seeking peace). At one party at the pagoda-like French embassy, Malenkov, Mikoyan and Molotov knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov...