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...name of our love for la Patrie, I conjure you not to leave her isolated." So Foreign Minister Georges Bidault pleaded with the French National Assembly last week to approve the Western German state that Britain and the U.S. wanted-and that French delegates had accepted in London...
...Behind Bidault's insistence stood the fear that, should he fail to get approval from the Assembly, France might be left perilously alone; in the half-light of the gilt and plush Chamber of Deputies lurked the specters of a resurgent Germany, of France's own military impotence. As they listened to the debate, deputies also thought of the 60 Red Army divisions facing westward, of Washington and London, who want to rebuild a Western German state; of millions of other little Europeans who fear that this major step towards European reconstruction may plunge them instead into...
...petite, grey-haired women journalists had a date this week at Paris' Quai d'Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
...Communist Flight. U.S. Intelligence had discovered that Russia intended to come out for the return of Trieste to Italy; the State Department beat the Russians to it. France's Foreign Minister, Georges Bidault, in Turin to sign a Franco-Italian trade agreement, announced that the U.S., Great Britain and France had decided that the Free Territory of Trieste should be returned to Italian sovereignty. He also promised a drive to help Italy regain some of her war-lost colonies...
Next day the non-Communists quickly elected their ticket, giving the first vice presidency to a Socialist, the second to a Popular Republican. The Cocos got the third and fourth spots. Furious and frustrated, they said they would not accept. When Foreign Minister Georges Bidault appeared to say a few words, they advised him to run away and drink his U.S. Coca-Cola, chew his U.S. chewing...