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...Cries. As the debate began, Georges Bidault and his Catholic M.R.P., professed friends of a united Europe, bided their time. "Don't get yourself worked up," the M.R.P.'s Francois de Menthon mocked Premier Mendes-France. "We've already decided to deal with you later." They have never forgiven him his share in the defeat of their...
...Mendès submitted his Indo-China budget. The Finance Committee scorned it, 25 to 14. When Mendès raced over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted him down 301 to 291, the first major parliamentary...
...hurriedly revised budget, in order to compel a new test of strength. He still could not find the votes. It began to look as if Mendès would be overthrown before he could get a vote on the Paris accords. Suddenly, out of the blue, two Deputies of Bidault's M.R.P. announced that they would switch their votes. At 4:30 a.m., Mendès' revised Indo-China budget was accepted by just two votes, 295 to 293. The Mendès government was saved by a hair'sbreadth; the ratification debate could...
Premier-Killers, Inc. Mendès now knew that his government owed its life to the artful designs of his enemies. The Assembly's expert Premier-killers, mobilized by Georges Bidault who wants vengeance on Mendès for the death of EDC, were playing a cat-and-mouse game, keeping him in office for their own purposes. Resigned to the inevitability of German rearmament, these expert infighters were determined to identify Mendès with that needed but unpopular measure. Then they meant to kick him out, perhaps on the Indo-China issue...
...rebuttal, Mitterrand called upon Georges Bidault to testify that Mitterrand had left the Laniel government because of policy differences. Bidault, still bitter from the defeat of EDC, agreed that Mitterrand was right, added stonily, "I refuse you all other testimonials...