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The violence of their mood further unsettled Mollet's new regime. Mollet, though a mild-appearing ex-schoolmaster and party functionary, is a man of courage who escaped the Gestapo's hand in 1943. At the first reports of the angry murmurings against Catroux, Mollet announced steadfastly: "I will accompany General Catroux, and we will ride in the same car." Early this week, as the angry mutterings swelled, Catroux resigned. Mollet went off alone to Algiers, where he was greeted with a shower of rotten tomatoes as he laid a wreath at a monument to war dead.