Word: bidault
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...heard from their Christian Democrat colleagues in Germany and Italy (Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Italian Christian Democrats, made a missionary trip to Paris). In their caucus, "good European" Robert Schuman announced that he intended to vote yes, and was greeted by jeers from the unforgiving followers of Georges Bidault...
Confidence Accorded. But next day the Assembly's delays ran out. Facing up to the inevitable, Bidault bargained with Schuman: they agreed to cancel each other out by both abstaining. Another 16 MRPers decided to forget their bitterness against Mendes for the sake of Western unity. It was enough. From a slip of paper, the Assembly president read: "287 votes for, 260 against. Confidence is accorded...
...M.R.P.,divided between those who, like Bidault, wanted to vote against Men des whatever the cost to France, and those who, like onetime Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, would vote for Western unity, announced that it would abstain...
...vote on the treaty provisions which authorized German rearmament and admission to the Western European Union. The M.R.P. demanded a recess. For three hours Mendes confidently sat on the front bench scanning newspapers while the M.R.P. conferred. de Menthon argued for an outright vote against, instead of abstention. Bidault agreed...
Emerging from the meeting, Bidault encountered Reynaud. "Is the night going to be long?" asked Reynaud. "It may be long, but in any case it is ours," said Bidault with a sly-fox grin...