Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obstacles in the path of this most important of conferences, and lay down some framework for the treaty-drafting procedure, a meeting of lesser officials of the four powers began negotiations in January. Unfortunately, five weeks or so of wrangling have produced little visible results, and Messrs. Bevin, Bidault, Marshall, and Molotov, the first string team, will be forced to start things again from the very beginning. And it would seem that these four gentlemen will find four distinct levels on which controversy will be abundant, and compromise the order...
PARIS, February 27--Reliable reports said today that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin would sign a French-British alliance at some port along the French channel coast next Wednesday...
...common enemy was beaten, and the people of the underground had returned to their drab lives, men utterly opposed to Communism hesitated to attack Communists with whom they had shared danger in the struggle against the Germans. Even the Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant unity crashed in the treason trial of René Hardy...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...necessary to make Byrnes's policy stick with the Senate and the country. At the London meeting Bevin still carried the ball for the West and Vandenberg was still dissatisfied with Byrnes. In his report to the Senate on the U.N. meeting, Vandenberg lavished praise on Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then called on the U.S. vigorously to "sustain its own purposes and ideals on all occasions as Russia does." Jimmy got the point; at the same time Moscow's refusal to take its troops out of Persia was beginning to convince...