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...symbol of Western civilization's resistance to the rule of materialism; but the Communists, unlike the mountains, would not be moved by faith; the struggle that engaged the Pope was fought currently in the field of politics. For a time it looked as if France's Georges Bidault, as leader of Europe's only strong new political movement, Christian socialism, might be 1946's man; but as the year ended and the Fourth French Republic began, Bidault was out of office (and apartment hunting). In China Chiang Kai-shek gained ground on two fronts: he beat...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...necessary to make Byrnes's policy stick with the Senate and the country. At the London meeting Bevin still carried the ball for the West and Vandenberg was still dissatisfied with Byrnes. In his report to the Senate on the U.N. meeting, Vandenberg lavished praise on Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then called on the U.S. vigorously to "sustain its own purposes and ideals on all occasions as Russia does." Jimmy got the point; at the same time Moscow's refusal to take its troops out of Persia was beginning to convince...
...Georges Bidaults, who since 1944 'have lived in a comfortable apartment in the French Foreign Office, were embarrassed last fortnight when Bidault ceased to be Premier-President and Foreign Minister and thus lost his home. The Bidaults could find no place to go. But his successor Léon Blum told the flustered Bidaults that there was no hurry about moving...
Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good showing, and was about even with the Reds, who lost votes for the first time since liberation. The Socialists lost even more heavily than last time...