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...M.R.P. and the Right were not persuaded. The final vote was tense and tight. President Gouin cast a white cardboard ballot, meaning yes. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. followed with a blue slip, meaning no. When all the tallies were in, the Communist-Socialist combine had won, 309 to 249. The proposed Constitution for the Fourth Republic went to the French people for approval or rejection...
...return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version of the Western Bloc. In a stormy Cabinet session, President Gouin was overwhelmed by pressure from both Foreign Minister Bidault's Catholic M.R.P. and the Communists. Meekly his Government announced no change in its German policy, left the British hand dangling...
...Yelling on the Fairground." Blum was helped not a whit by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who tactlessly made explicit what everyone knew was implicit in the Blum mission-the contention that unless France got U.S. aid she would likely turn to Communism. Said Bidault: if France does not get a big loan "we would almost inevitably be compelled to organize our economic policy in other directions." The world knew "other directions" meant Moscow-ward...
...rightist Parisian daily Epoque angrily accused the foreign minister of "torpedoing" Blum's "most delicate mission." Said L'Aurore: "This is not public diplomacy. This is yelling on the fairground. . . . Bidault talks to the Americans in a manner best calculated to upset them-by threatening blackmail." Bidault hastily said he had been misinterpreted...
Ernest Bevin did more than any other man in London to lift UNO above its fears. Many an emissary from smaller nations had come to London with ideals as high as Bevin's, and higher eloquence. But Bidault, for instance, dared not speak up; French Communists were too strong, and France too weak. The world's most powerful nation was represented in London first by U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes, a habitual compromiser, and then by Stettinius, a competent, sincere negotiator. But they expended their energies on conjuring up patchwork formulas...