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RESISTANCE by Georges Bidault. 348 pages. Praeger...
There is an echo of classical tragedy n the career of Georges Bidault. For two decades, beginning with his leadership of the French Resistance in World War II, his countrymen regarded him as a hero. The diminutive onetime history professor and Catholic moderate was twice Premier and nine times Foreign Minister in the Fourth Republic. He had the satisfaction of helping to write the U.N. Charter and to launch European economic unity; in Geneva in 1954, he also had the unhappy task of negotiating France's retreat from Indo-China. It was he who invited De Gaulle to take...
Once firmly ensconced in the Elysée, though, De Gaulle granted Algeria its independence. Most Frenchmen have by now accepted the fact; not Bidault, who fled France in 1962 to organize a second resistance movement-this time against De Gaulle. Bidault disclaims any responsibility for the terrorism that accompanied the Algerie Française campaign; nevertheless, he was charged with treason, and for five years he wandered in quixotic exile in Europe and Brazil. Now living in Belgium on the understanding that he will not engage in politics, he still hopes to negotiate his return to France. This book...
Forgotten in Brazilian exile for the past four years, after accusing Charles de Gaulle of "treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty...
...told his "United Front" allies who urged cooperation with the Chinese: "I prefer to smell French merde for five years than smell the Chinese variety for the rest of my life." In 1946, Ho headed for Paris to negotiate Chinese withdrawal with the government of Premier Georges Bidault, and also to win full independence for his Viet Minh regime. All charm and chatter, Ho reigned in style at the Royal Hotel near the Etoile. "He would always embrace us affectionately," recalls one participant in the negotiations. "But Bidault wasn't too keen on such gestures, presumably because...