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White-haired Field Marshal and Premier Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, a veteran of the League of Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...
...anybody else. Washington's colony of little-nation diplomats fell into the nether pits of gloom. Parisians heard that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, selected last week to head France's delegation to San Francisco, first learned of the deal from his morning newspaper. Australia's Herbert V. Evatt, in the U.S. on his way to London for a preliminary Empire conference, was astounded and enraged. All the dominions knew that Russia had asked for three votes, but not that the U.S. had consented or decided to demand three for itself. British officialdom seemed...
...since the days of the great Marshal Lyautey had Frenchmen been so conscious of empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
Said Minister Bidault: "We cannot tolerate that anyone should try to dispossess France of her sovereignty of certain territories. . . . There are peoples to whom we owe an outstanding debt . . . whom we must lead toward a better future. The French nation, the nations that accompany us on our road and are faithful to us: that is the real trusteeship...
Last week, directly after Foreign Minister Bidault's speech, the Government took another step toward the new Union. Upon some 20,000 creamy, copra-gathering South Sea Islanders, inhabitants of French Raïatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Bora-Bora, Maupiti, Mopelia, Rurutu and Rimatara, it bestowed French citizenship...