Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of Western civilization's resistance to the rule of materialism; but the Communists, unlike the mountains, would not be moved by faith; the struggle that engaged the Pope was fought currently in the field of politics. For a time it looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong new political movement, Christian socialism, might be 1946's man; but as the year ended and the Fourth French Republic began, Bidault was out of office (and apartment hunting). In China Chiang Kai-shek gained ground on two fronts: he beat...
...Georges Bidaults, who since 1944 'have lived in a comfortable apartment in the French Foreign Office, were embarrassed last fortnight when Bidault ceased to be Premier-President and Foreign Minister and thus lost his home. The Bidaults could find no place to go. But his successor Léon Blum told the flustered Bidaults that there was no hurry about moving...
Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good showing, and was about even with the Reds, who lost votes for the first time since liberation. The Socialists lost even more heavily than last time...
Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker will be calling signals for Britain, Foreign Minister Bidault for France, ex-Senator Warren Austin of Vermont for the U.S. Bevin and Byrnes will show up later, when the Council of Foreign Ministers takes up treaty recommendations handed on from Paris (see above...
Catholic Centrist M.R.P., and its leader, President Georges Bidault, a resounding slap. Only one-third of its members voted for the Constitution the party had cosponsored. The Socialists also were divided, but the Communists, as usual, voted in a disciplined phalanx...