Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's most prominent foe. ex-Premier Georges Bidault, now a ranking S.A.O. chieftain, was as publicly defiant as ever. He could afford to be, for he was now holed up in southern Germany, where, after a nervous brushoff by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he sought political asylum from the state of Bavaria. Bathed in publicity and surrounded by police, he obviously was not doing his resistance organization much concrete good in a distant German villa...
...midtrial, the government rounded up five of the conspirators who had taken part in the second ambush. At week's end, former Premier Georges Bidault, now reportedly leading the anti-Gaullist underground, was also arrested in Italy and, as is common in such cases, taken to "the frontier of his choice...
There is no doubt that the S.A.O.'s exiled leaders, particularly ex-Premier Georges Bidault and ex-Cabinet Minister Jacques Soustelle, hope to overthrow the De Gaulle regime by a combination of legal and illegal activities. In hiding with Bidault is ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud, who opposed S.A.O. terrorism in Algeria only because "the fate of the nation will be decided in Paris." Conspirator Soustelle was arrested two weeks ago in Milan, and tossed out of Italy as politically "undesirable." Then he vanished, probably to take refuge in Spain, where S.A.O. Treasurer Dr. Jean-Claude Perez controls an estimated...
...Paris, Deputies of the National Assembly were openly irritated at his disdain for their views, needled him with a petty but rare legislative defeat. Taunting the government ministers with the obvious fact that all important decisions are made by De Gaulle and no one else, former Premier Georges Bidault snapped: "We are the appearance of a Parliament which debates with the appearance of a government...
...same kind of rigidity in colonial affairs has affected economic progress before, and may possibly wreck it eventually. After the Korean War, when the U.S. satisfied itself with a stalemate armistice, Georges Bidault insisted on victory in Indochina. "Resistance," or"immobilisme" was again the theme in dealings with Morocco and Tunisia, a policy which Aron explains by recalling French fears of another Munich or Vichy. The same fears have prevented the transfer of the rest of the empire, Algeria, into nationalist hands...