Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Determined to avoid scandal, Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press...
Coca-Colonized? As the Foreign Ministers continued their talks in the Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed...
...waiting for his chance to make a grand entrance on the French political scene. In recent months he has lived quietly at his home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, leaving occasionally for speeches or visits to his headquarters in Paris, entertaining party strategists and army men. But when Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans) became Premier last month, rumors proliferated about a possible deal between Bidault and De Gaulle...
...close associate of the general in postliberation days, Bidault said last spring: "We are ready to rally around the prodigious name of General de Gaulle." No Gaullist deputy had voted against Bidault when he formed his new government. . Into this situation the newspaper L'Epoque, right-wing but not Gaullist, last week tossed a sensational story. In a signed front-page article, Editor Andre Bougenot declared: "Several important political personalities were recently shown the text of a secret protocol, signed by General de Gaulle and Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier...
...Bidault, whose party has been losing ground to De Gaulle's followers, does not want an election. So the spunky little man will do his best to keep France's latest jerry-built cabinet from crashing down...