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Dulles' bedrock argument was that if the U.S. wants to preserve its diplomatic gains in Europe, there is no way out of a subsequent conference on Asia. Molotov's aim at Berlin was to split off France from the Big Three; France's Foreign Minister Bidault was under instructions from his government to work for negotiations with Peking. It is far better-the Dulles argument continued-to have joint negotiations than to split the Big Three and have France negotiating with the Communists...
...Berlin Conference and renewed proof of Russia's implacable hold on East Germany, the focus of uncertainty in Europe shifted back to Paris-and to the familiar, nagging question: What will the French do about EDC, the European army project? Before leaving Berlin, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told Secretary Dulles that he hoped to see the legislative gears turning by mid-March and that he hoped for ratification of EDC by mid-April. Not many in France were so optimistic...
Before Berlin, Bidault was asked what he would do if the Russians presented him with a clear bargain: peace in Indo-China if France would abandon EDC. Bidault replied sarcastically that he didn't expect to see cards like that placed on the table. "The Russians," he said, "never play anything but clubs." Now, however, that there was something else to wait for -the Geneva conference in April-anti-EDC voices were again heard in Paris. Their new refrain: France must not provoke the Russians by approving EDC so long as there is a chance of ending the Indo...
...matters European, the final week of the conference gave Russia's Molotov a dialectical drubbing that he would not soon forget. France's nimble Georges Bidault, whom Molotov tried hardest to woo, tore into Russia's plan for an "us Europeans" pact that would shove the U.S. out of Europe, and leave all of Russia in. Snapped Bidault: "Lake Baikal and Vladivostok are no more European than the Mississippi and Chicago...
...Geneva Conference was most of all a victory for France. By agreeing to sit down with the representatives of Red China, John Foster Dulles was deferring not to Molotov but to Georges Bidault, whose performance at Berlin had earned him U.S. gratitude. Time and again, the little Frenchman had risked his political neck by rejecting Soviet blandishments (e.g., that France and Russia could "solve" the German problem between them) in defiance of opinion back home. And when Molotov had tried to speak over Bidault's head to the French, Bidault sharply replied: "I would remind Monsieur Molotov that...