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...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...rostrum stumbled Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, the Catholic professor of history who had led the Resistance movement. Like France, he was sick-with grippe or from an overdose of medicine. He was speaking to Moscow, but his voice was scarcely audible. Back benchers cried: "Louder! Louder!" Bidault mumbled: France has no intention of taking part in any anti-Russian "western cordon.. . . We certainly want an alliance in the west but we also want an alliance in the east of Europe." Then he cut his remarks short, slumped down like an old man. On the Government bench, General Charles...
...Paris was Miguel Maura. A conservative and former Minister of the Interior, Maura was busy calling on people like French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault (a Catholic who supported the Republic during the civil war) and Franco's representative, José de Sangroniz. Maura hoped to negotiate a peaceful transfer of power from Franco to a republic...
...accorded [Germany]." Said the Big Three: "Conscious ... of the part France will inevitably play in maintaining the future peace of Europe . . . the Provisional Government of the French Republic [is invited] to full [E.A.C.] membership." (Russia's Ambassador to France, Alexander E. Bogomolov, informed French Foreign Commissioner Georges Bidault that it was Russia who had proposed inviting France into the European Advisory Commission...
...Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was impatient. Said he: "It is generally agreed that national elections* cannot be held until the war prisoners and labor conscripts have returned. Since this is likely to be months hence, there will probably be a long interval before a freely elected government assumes office. This means the provisional regime may be in power a long time. Will it have to wait indefinitely during a period of crucial decision affecting the future before enjoying normal relations with its Allies...