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...rest, the U.S., Britain and France called off the scheduled Big Three meeting in Bermuda for the time being and agreed to hold a foreign-ministers' conference-promptly dubbed the "Little Three meeting"-in Washington. Last week Britain's Lord Salisbury and France's Georges Bidault, each trailing half a dozen aides, arrived in the capital for talks with Secretary of State Dulles...
...expected the meeting to produce nothing new on the old problems-Korea, German unification, the European Defense Community, NATO, Indo-China. Such questions were, and would continue to be, under constant discussion among the three nations at several diplomatic levels. On the other hand, he did expect Salisbury and Bidault acting on instructions, to press for a Big Four meeting-a proposal to which Dulles did not want to say yes and could not, for amity's sake, flatly say no. To avoid raising hopes either at home or abroad, Dulles said, before the visitors arrived: "We wish these...
...long-faced, lanky figure of John Foster Dulles was familiar. So was that of worldlywise, world-weary little Georges Bidault. The new face at the diplomatic table in Washington this week would be that of a lean Englishman who is pinch-hitting for Anthony Eden. He is the Tory Party's hidden siege gun in foreign affairs...
...time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory, and his big farm at Bellerive-sur-Allier became an important Resistance headquarters. He was one of the founders with Bidault, of the Committee of National Resistance. On Liberation Day in August 1944, he walked beside De Gaulle down the Champs Elysees...
...doctrine is on the right, and his heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...