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...their Premiers and all of their foreign ministers (except The Netherlands') are Christian Democrats. All are disciples of European unity, all share an overall philosophy, all-perhaps by political accident-are Roman Catholics. When Italy's De Gasperi, West Germany's Adenauer and France's Bidault sit down to negotiate a treaty or discuss the future, they draw from a common religious inspiration that sees Europe reunited as it was before Europe burst asunder in post-Reformation strife. They share, too, the paradox of having come to power frankly religious men, in a Europe heavily influenced...
France's GEORGES BIDAULT was still smarting under his country's exclusion from the Potsdam Conference. "Molotov's objective," says Dulles, "was to provoke him to leave the conference. To that end . . . Molotov tried to outrage French honor by petty slights. He would . . ask for a postponement . . . and not tell Mr. Bidault. Mr. Bidault, appearing punctually at the original hour, would sit with growing impatience as no colleagues appeared, or return to his hotel. On occasions, he was on the verge of returning to Paris...
Around René Mayer's chief companion on the trip to Washington, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the visibility was not so clear. Washington had small, agile Georges Bidault pegged as a clever man caught between sympathy for the European Army plan and his own strong desire to become President of France next year. He is maneuvering in the thickets of French politics for a formula which will not only squeeze EDC through the Assembly-a heroic task in itself-but will also get Georges Bidault the later political support of varied, often opposing political factions. Bidault joined Mayer last...
...chairman's eloquence, the Assembly delegates voted a rousing approval: 50 to 0, with five abstentions, four of them French (two Gaullists, two Socialists). The Foreign Ministers, whose approval in effect would bind their governments, were less ready to throw in with the plan. France's Georges Bidault tried his best to be enthusiastic ("I am happy to pay you . . . the tribute: 'Salute to the Adventurers'"), but he spoke with the voice of weary experience: "Let us beware of thinking . . . that all things are possible to hearts that are sincere...
...Jolt for the Premier. But even before Bidault left for home, the clouds drifted back across the sun. Of course, he told newsmen, France still wants revisions in the treaty, one way or other, and it will not even attempt to push the treaty through the National Assembly until the French revisions have been "redrafted and accepted" by the other five powers. "A great step forward could be taken." said Bidault with perhaps more candor than he intended, "if France were in a position to make up her mind as to what she really wants to do." The fact...