In 1958, the choice was between a military coup on the right or a Popular Front alliance with the Communists on the left. It was partly because he so mistrusted the Communists that Mollet had rallied to de Gaulle as a lesser evil. Although the politicians were not sure de Gaulle could be trusted to save them from the army, and the army was not sure de Gaulle could be trusted to save it from the politicians,
