STRONG MINORITY AGAINST MOLLET POLICY AT SOCIALIST PARTY CONGRESS
The French Socialist Party recently held its LIInd Congress, the first since that split that gave birth to the P SU. With the left departed, it might have seemed that Guy Nothing of the sort. The main question, of course, was Mollet would dominate the congress without rival. that of Algeria. The ultra tendency of Lacoste and Lejeune, which in the past, without carrying all before it, had at least left its mark on the party, was reduced this time to a trifling number of votes (less than 5%). The Mollet leadership obtained for its pro - de Gaulle Algerian resolubourgeois legality. tion only 55% of the votes, while 40% were for a GazierDeferre resolution which, while not very audacious
91 east came out for political negotiation with the FLN
In the level of general policy, the "left" of Gazier which called for a break with the Gaullist regime, obtained no more than 27% of the votes. It consequently appears that even inside the SP the currents in favor of negotiation wiih the FLN extend even to more or less clearly self-declared Gaullists; this reflects the increase throughout the country of a desire for negotiations with the G PR A