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...16th-century Roman villa, EDC's two most fervent champions teamed up to save the dream of a six-nation internationalized army. Switching dexterously from Italian to French to old-fashioned but serviceable German, Italy's Premier Alcide de Gasperi worked on French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other ministers behind the scenes...
Under De Gasperi's private urgings and Adenauer's public alarms, Georges Bidault, the diplomat with the Mona Lisa smile, announced that France had no intention of reneging on the EDC idea, which it had proposed in the first place. It considered its "protocols" to be not amendments to the treaty, said Bidault, but only "interpretive" addenda which need not be ratified, need not even cause any delay in prompt ratification of the treaty in the six West European Parliaments. What is more, said he, France is perfectly willing to consider changes in the "protocols" themselves...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
Waiting Outside. His new cabinet includes 20 members of the previous Pinay cabinet, among them Defense Minister Rene Pleven. Biggest change was that of Georges Bidault for Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister. Both men are of the same party, the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), but of very different character. A clandestine resistance leader, Bidault was De Gaulle's Foreign Minister in the Provisional government. Later he represented France at the San Francisco Conference, and vigorously pushed ratification of the agreements which are the basis of the present EDC negotiations. Premier in 1950, Vice Premier and Defense Minister in several governments...
...summer to support Conservative Pinay. Aloof and disdainful, the general stayed away from Paris, while one of his most ambitious lieutenants, a young (40) anthropologist named Jacques Soustelle, accepted the President's invitation to try to form a cabinet. He failed. Next came ex-Premier (1946-50) Georges Bidault of the M.R.P., whose chances seemed little better than Soustelle...