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...impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name, at least some sort of unofficial blessing. "Gaullism," said Georges Bidault wryly, "is a cathedral, open to all, with only dogs, assassins and the plague excluded...
Political Career. Won a seat in the Constituent Assembly in 1945 as a member of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. (Popular Republican Movement). Has held office, usually as Minister of Agriculture, in 15 different postwar Cabinets. In 1949 he abruptly quit the Cabinet of his fellow Popular Republican Georges Bidault, sometime Foreign Minister in the De Gaulle Cabinet (1944), in protest against the government's failure to keep up the price of sugar beets. A year ago Pflimlin wrested the M.R.P. leadership from Bidault, an increasingly bitter man who alone in his party advocates a tough policy in Algeria. Pflimlin...
Encouraging Setback. The federation scheme is anathema to French right-wingers, but it has long been accepted in principle by some French moderates, and in Paris last week it was the moderates who were gaining ground. Waspish Georges Bidault, the first aspirant to succeed fallen Premier Felix Gaillard (TIME, April 28), could not even persuade his own Popular Republican Party to support him in forming a government; in fact, only one of the party's 75 members in the Assembly had joined him in voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution...
...news of Pleven's nomination, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba promptly announced that he no longer intended to reopen Tunisia's U.N. Security Council complaint against France over French air force bombing of the village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17). Said Bourguiba: "Monsieur Bidault's setback is an encouraging sign. His failure shows that there does not exist in the French Parliament . . . any majority for an extremist policy...
...back he has only three weeks to survive until it recesses for senatorial elections in May. After that, it's only a matter of weeks until summer recess. But what difference does it make? Since the abominable 1956 elections, we've been the prisoners of division. Georges Bidault may try. But neither he nor his friends nor anybody else can make it. One day sooner or later there will be panic. I don't know what will cause it. Perhaps a disaster in North Africa, perhaps a long governmental crisis in Paris...