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Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker will be calling signals for Britain, Foreign Minister Bidault for France, ex-Senator Warren Austin of Vermont for the U.S. Bevin and Byrnes will show up later, when the Council of Foreign Ministers takes up treaty recommendations handed on from Paris (see above...
Catholic Centrist M.R.P., and its leader, President Georges Bidault, a resounding slap. Only one-third of its members voted for the Constitution the party had cosponsored. The Socialists also were divided, but the Communists, as usual, voted in a disciplined phalanx...
This mess and many another such straw indicated the deep divisions within France. Nevertheless, Premier-President Georges Bidault, burning mad at De Gaulle's opposition, prepared to fight the rift in his own party by stumping the country for the new constitution. If it lost, Bidault's rising star would probably decline, and Charles de Gaulle would again be the dominant figure in France...
...Vishinsky continued in Russian, Bidault banged his gavel; when that had no effect he rang the chairman's bell, which is used only to open and close sessions. Finally Vishinsky got the floor and said he had merely been attempting to withdraw a Russian objection. He added: "I am very sorry the President was disturbed, and particularly that he disturbed the august bell at his elbow...
...Replied Bidault: "I did not ring the bell. It was rung by article 62 of our rules of procedure." The delegates, who had had little to laugh about, laughed...