Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrathful over Russia's "calculated campaign of vilification and distortion of American motives in foreign affairs." The U.S. had one objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...
After some strenuous haggling, M. Schuman announced a cabinet composed of Socialists, Popular Republicans and Radicals (centrists), plus one moderate Independent Republican. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was kept at his post; the important Ministries of Interior (police) and of Social Affairs (labor) went to Socialists Jules Modi and Daniel Mayer...
...Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
...million voted for the R.P.F. candidates. The Communists, who had been France's most heavily supported party, dropped from 5,500,000 to 4,700,000. Though Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's Popular Republicans lost most heavily, De Gaulle picked up votes from all parties, including at least a quarter-million from the Communists themselves...
Three facts stood out: 1) Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. won a smashing victory, now held more votes than any other party (6,000,000); 2) Georges Bidault's centrist M.R.P. was all but dead, with more than two-thirds of its voters having gone over to De Gaulle; 3) the Communists, though knocked off their perch as France's largest party, had essentially held their...