Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if we do not, the conference must be held." Britain's Bevin and France's Bidault spoke up for an early conference. Gazing steadily at Molotov, Byrnes said: "It is now clear who is exercising the veto. I want to know how much longer he is going to veto the peace of the world...
...Equality of Dissatisfaction." Since Stalin had probably promised Trieste to Tito, any solution would have to save face all around. France's Georges Bidault, doing a magnificent job as conciliator in the midst of his other troubles (see FOREIGN NEWS), hit on just the right phrase: "We are striving here for an equality of dissatisfaction...
Harassed but unruffled, graceful Georges Bidault commuted with a dancer's step between the Foreign Ministers' treaty talks at the Luxembourg Palace (see INTERNATIONAL) and the Palais-Bourbon, where the French Assembly had made him provisional chief of state. To complicate Bidault's task of Cabinetmaking, the Communists egged on the labor unions to demand inflationary wage increases to meet rising living costs...
Make It Snappy! When the ministers and their staffs filed through gilded double doors into the Salle Victor Hugo, everyone tried hard to relax, joking with old friends, shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko...
...disagreement be summarized and submitted to a 21-power peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke. Then Bidault said quietly that this seemed like a good idea. Bevin nodded thoughtfully.* Molotov whispered into the ear of Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov, who announced that Russia would like to think it over...