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Cautiously, Premier Joseph Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault tried to extract a policy out of the paradox of a war France could find no way to win yet dared not lose. The Geneva Conference was not far off. The National Assembly demanded to know how the government proposed to stand when the diplomats at Geneva discussed Indo-China...
...eyes of many Americans, the worst result of Berlin was the agreement to negotiate on Korea and Indo-China at the April conference in Geneva. In French eyes, this was the best result. Reporting last week to the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said: "The situation in Europe is identical with what it was before ... but the results on Asia would in themselves justify the meeting of the four ministers." Proudly and perhaps unwisely, M. Bidault represented the Geneva agreement as a concession he had wrung from Dulles in return for Bidault...
...letter to the French government, the Chancellor suggested he and French Foreign Minister Bidault meet during the next seven days to discuss the Saar...
Sooner or later, Dulles knew, the war-weary French public would force its Foreign Minister to seek negotiations with the Communists. In a European city, with the U.S. and Britain at his side, Bidault would be in a far stronger position than he would alone in Asia. And U.S. participation would make it difficult for the French to make the settlement too easy on the Communists...
...hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath...