Out of the milling confusion of France's indecisive election, one man emerged as someone to be reckoned with. He is a softspoken, 50-year-old ex-professor of English named Guy Mollet. As boss of the Socialist Party, Mollet may be the first man President Coty asks to try to form a Cabinet.
Mollet linked his Socialists with Pierre Mendès-France's Radicals in a left-of-center Republican Front. On election day the Socialists won 94 Deputies to Mendès' 50, thus giving Mollet a claim to being the senior partner. Mollet's claim rested on the fact that the Socialists...
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