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...Together. Also flying toward Karachi at week's end were France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Between sessions with SEATO's other five foreign ministers, the Big Three plan to confer on the Middle East. There the troubles were not, by any means, all of Russia's making, though the Russians are ready to profit from the divisions and hatreds...
France's two other North African territories moved nearer independence-and farther from France. For two weeks Foreign Minister Christian Pineau's negotiators had been stubbornly insisting that France could never agree to recognize Morocco's independence until Sultan Ben Youssef had also accepted terms of "interdependence." Last week France gave in. It signed a declaration recognizing Morocco's sovereignty and granting Morocco the right to maintain an army and conduct its own diplomacy. The terms of interdependence are still to be written...
...hours after the French government announced that Premier Guy Mollet had accepted an invitation to visit Moscow in May, his fellow Socialist, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, unburdened himself of the sharpest talk any French foreign minister had directed at France's allies in years. Addressing the Anglo-American press club, Pineau declared bluntly: "I am in deep disagreement with the policy followed by the Western nations during recent years." His thesis: "We have made an enormous mistake in deciding that security problems were the only international problems we had to worry about. Of course we need security. Of course...
...Pineau pointed to SEATO's recent naval and military maneuvers off Thailand. "Do you really think that, in this atomic era, this handful of ships will give the impression that the West is the leader of the world? The Bulganin-Khrushchev tour of India was much more important. If the West does not make an effort in the direction of propositions of peace, we shall be beaten first on the field of propaganda and then on that of policy...
...some tight dickering with his electoral ally, Pierre Mendès-France, Mollet settled on a Cabinet, giving Mendès the job of Deputy Premier without portfolio (instead of Foreign Minister, which Mendes desired). For Foreign Minister he reached instead into his own party for Good European Christian Pineau. 51, stepson of Playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux and himself an author of children's fairy stories. Mollet spurned the Communist support proffered ("Let no one think that I'm the man to prepare the future of Popular Front . . . I will never lead my party...