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...over Pierre Mendès-France's plea that France could not afford to wave off Tunisian-Moroccan offers to mediate a settlement with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). Mendès was howled down. He managed to finish only after his bitter political enemy Georges Bidault shouted: "If Mendès-France has not the right to speak here, then no one has the right to reply...
...because it includes too many political shadings from left to right, unified only by Catholicism. The West German party, in a nation that is less than 50% Roman Catholic, has shrewdly salted its basically Catholic leadership with Protestants. In France the Catholic M.R.P. Party, with its "good Europeans" Georges Bidault and Robert Schuman, is a declining force because the supersensitive issue of state aid to Catholic schools has split it from its Socialist allies...
...battalions to protect Hungary against the Soviet Union, will it? That is a 30-or 40-division job; so I hope you will acquit me of being pessimistic when I say that I don't believe Hungary is going to be protected ..." From Paris, former French Premier Georges Bidault, who helped write the U.N. Charter, chimed in: "The United Nations became harmful a long time ago. They have established many inquiries without solving anything...
...changing his Jewish name, a grinning Communist, waving clippings from L'Humanité, blamed him for German rearmament ("He gave the spiked helmet back to the Germans"), and an M.R.P. spokesman cried that Mendès had stolen the credit from M.R.P.'s Georges Bidault for ending the Indo-China war. Mendès-France gave as good as he got. For a neo-Fascist heckler of his acquaintance he reserved a telling word: "Collaborator." The neo-Fascist exploded with indignation: "Liar! I was a prisoner...
...with the air of a man who didn't care who knows it. In effect, Soviet Russia told the world that it had already absorbed the benefits of Geneva's relaxation of tensions, and felt no further need to feign amiability. Or, as former French Premier Georges Bidault, veteran of many arguments with Molotov, put it in an article for I.N.S.: "Molotov is saying to the Western nations : 'You are not ready to blow out the flame of hope and peace you have lighted among your own peoples. Consequently we are not worried...