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...Bidault had won an impressive vote of confidence in the Assembly (393-186) on the Communist-opposed anti-sabotage measure, the government's Red troubles were not over. Before the final vote, Communist deputies put on a riotous show that was even more violent and abusive than last week's. Cracked a Foreign Office official who must attend this week's debate on ratification of the Franco-American military aid agreement: "Where could I borrow a suit of armor...
Meanwhile, the Communists had found unexpected allies: France's wine growers and the complacently chauvinistic members of Premier Bidault's own M.R.P. Paris' L0 Monde spoke for the conservatives: "What the French criticize [in Coca-Cola] is less the drink itself than the civilization, the style of life of which it is a sign and ... a symbol. . . red delivery trucks and walls covered with signs, placards and advertisements ... It is a question of the whole panorama and morale of French civilization...
...Bidault told the Assembly that the Paris police had picked up a young Indo-Chinese after a bus fight, found in his possession a top-secret report on Indo-China written by Revers. Police traced the report back to a "double or perhaps triple" informer and onetime embezzler named Roger Peyre, who said he had gotten the report from General Mast. Revers meanwhile had admitted giving it to Mast. Peyre, said Bidault, then sold the report for 2,800,000 francs to another agent who then turned it over to the Indo-Chinese Communists. Peyre intended to use the money...
...national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released, and Peyre reportedly set sail for South America. Meanwhile, General Mast had retired, and General Revers remained "at the disposition of the Prime Minister." That was all the government knew about the case, Bidault concluded...
France's own Communists leaped enthusiastically into the ensuing fray, seizing the occasion to sling more mud at Bidault. Accusations, denials and counteraccusations were scattered like shrapnel. After three hours of stormy debate the Assembly voted to form a committee to investigate the whole affair...