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Sorest Point. Listening to his speech, political pundits concluded that Eden had decided the Bevan brand of anti-Americanism had become politically popular. He went out of his way to pay "my personal tribute" to Molotov, welcomed the "opportunity to meet Chou En-lai," praised France's Bidault and Mendes-France, and even had a word of praise for the U.S.'s Bedell Smith. But he pointedly had no word for Secretary of State Dulles. He pressed hard on the sorest point in the touchy U.S.-British relationship: the recognition of Red China. "There is no doubt that...
...Conference, and he revived the prospect of a negotiated settlement in Indo-China. He brought a transfusion of young, fresh blood into the trouble-hardened arteries of French government. He ended the long postwar dominance of France by the Catholic M.R.P. party, whose two leaders, Robert Schuman and Georges Bidault. have served as Foreign Secretary through 18 different postwar Cabinets. He promised to break the deadlock over EDC that has so long undercut the strength and frayed the tempers of the Western alliance...
Gone from government was Foreign Minister Bidault; Mendès kept the Foreign Ministry for himself. The new Premier-Foreign Minister said he might personally go to Geneva to learn what the price of peace in Indo-China would...
...Indo-China. "We are not Americans," said he. "We cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year. As a maneuver to head off the inevitable, Bidault's Cath olic M.R.P., biggest party in Laniel's coalition, raised the bogey of "dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes...
According to the custom that the man most responsible for bringing down a government is given the first chance to form a new one, President Coty asked Mendès-France to try. He would have a hard time without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...