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...place, about 15 minutes by car from central Moscow, was the Aero (Aviation Officers') Club, a massive grey building which underwent refurbishing operations up to zero hour; workers put in carpets, telephones, new toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians still remember the ditty...
...concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...
...obstacles in the path of this most important of conferences, and lay down some framework for the treaty-drafting procedure, a meeting of lesser officials of the four powers began negotiations in January. Unfortunately, five weeks or so of wrangling have produced little visible results, and Messrs. Bevin, Bidault, Marshall, and Molotov, the first string team, will be forced to start things again from the very beginning. And it would seem that these four gentlemen will find four distinct levels on which controversy will be abundant, and compromise the order...
PARIS, February 27--Reliable reports said today that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin would sign a French-British alliance at some port along the French channel coast next Wednesday...
...common enemy was beaten, and the people of the underground had returned to their drab lives, men utterly opposed to Communism hesitated to attack Communists with whom they had shared danger in the struggle against the Germans. Even the Communists had curbed personal attacks on men like Georges Bidault, whose Resistance leadership they had accepted. But it was obvious that sooner or later the Communists would do away with such sentimental nonsense. By last week, the last remnants of France's gallant unity crashed in the treason trial of René Hardy...