Word: bidault
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...point of the Moscow proceedings last week, Ernie Bevin sighed and asked helplessly: "Where are we?" Said France's Bidault: "God knows." Cracked Bevin: "I didn't know He was a member of the Council...
...Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
...plot to dismember" the country. But there were signs that the Russians might compromise. Molotov, suggesting that the Germans themselves fix the degree of federalization, proposed that the old Weimar Constitution be used as a basis for a new one. This drew immediate objections. Cried France's Bidault: "The ghost of the Weimar Republic will not find favor with the French people...
Molotov and Bidault represented the two extreme positions on the matter- and an instructive paradox. Russia, which calls itself a federation of 16 individual republics, demanded a relatively unified Germany; France, which has one of Europe's most closely centralized administrations, demanded a loose German federation. The issue was not really one of political forms: Russia wanted to curry favor with the Germans, and France in accordance with her traditional policy wanted to weaken Germany...
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault notified the Council that France could not consent to economic reconstitution of Germany unless the other powers agreed to her demands for guarantees of German coal...