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RESISTANCE by Georges Bidault. 348 pages. Praeger...
There is an echo of classical tragedy n the career of Georges Bidault. For two decades, beginning with his leadership of the French Resistance in World War II, his countrymen regarded him as a hero. The diminutive onetime history professor and Catholic moderate was twice Premier and nine times Foreign Minister in the Fourth Republic. He had the satisfaction of helping to write the U.N. Charter and to launch European economic unity; in Geneva in 1954, he also had the unhappy task of negotiating France's retreat from Indo-China. It was he who invited De Gaulle to take...
Forgotten in Brazilian exile for the past four years, after accusing Charles de Gaulle of "treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty...
...told his "United Front" allies who urged cooperation with the Chinese: "I prefer to smell French merde for five years than smell the Chinese variety for the rest of my life." In 1946, Ho headed for Paris to negotiate Chinese withdrawal with the government of Premier Georges Bidault, and also to win full independence for his Viet Minh regime. All charm and chatter, Ho reigned in style at the Royal Hotel near the Etoile. "He would always embrace us affectionately," recalls one participant in the negotiations. "But Bidault wasn't too keen on such gestures, presumably because...
Drifting aimlessly like a man without a country, Bidault today is a pathetic fugitive who drinks too much and talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France...