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Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre...
After she finished Saga, Susan found her Frenchman. He turned out to be Pierre Granier-Deferre, who directed her first nude scene (with Charles Aznavour) in Paris in August and then married her. She now shuttles between a couple of cottages in Chelsea and an apartment in suburban Paris. France is for weekends and vacation, because it is about the only civilized country in the world where Susan has any privacy -Saga has not played there...
...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
...Certainly not," snapped Granier, "I abolish anarchy...