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...French were franker than the Brit ish about Suez. Said Socialist Premier Guy Mollet last week: "We did not tell President Eisenhower about the Franco-British invasion, because if we had, the U.S. would have insisted on our stopping." Mollet did not acknowledge that the main French objective was to unseat Nasser, but the failure to achieve this aim was threatening the life of his government last week...
...arms and propaganda which keeps Algeria in active revolt. Merely to wound Nasser was to leave Algeria as serious a situation as before. With less than 100 of the 586 Deputies present, Parliament listened in frigid silence as Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced the withdrawal of French troops from Suez...
...outset every party (except the Communists) had supported Mollet's Suez policy. Last week the same Deputies were bitterly divided. Those who had been against aggression, but afraid to speak out, were condemning Mollet in almost the same terms as those who favoring aggression, now resented his failure to finish the job. Mollet's own Socialist Party was split last week: 17 Socialist Deputies, including former Minister of Interior Jules Moch, demanded an extraordinary national party congress to review Mollet's record. The Radical Socialist Party headed by Pierre Mendès-France threatened to withdraw...
...which for weeks virtually cut off all communications with the outside world, and in its heavily censored press permitted only the official Russian version on Hungary to be printed, suddenly flung wide its doors to the West last week. For U.S. reporters who have been trying ever since the Suez invasion to find out who is running Syria, portly President Shukri el Kuwatly, 65, held genial open house. The reversal reflected Syrian concern over Western journalistic coverage, much of it highly exaggerated, of a Soviet take-over in Syria...
Buttering Up. Relaxed and good-humored in his brocade-hung palace reception room, President Kuwatly praised Eisenhower's intervention over Suez-though the Syrian press has steadily thanked Russia for bringing a Middle East ceasefire. Said Kuwatly to TIME Correspondent John Mecklin: "Syria was always friendly to the U.S. except during the bad times of Mr. Truman." Kuwatly recalled that just after World War I, Syrians had asked for U.S. in preference to French mandate rule, and he brought up a familiar subject: "All our trouble with you has been the fruit of the Jews...