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Harassed but unruffled, graceful Georges Bidault commuted with a dancer's step between the Foreign Ministers' treaty talks at the Luxembourg Palace (see INTERNATIONAL) and the Palais-Bourbon, where the French Assembly had made him provisional chief of state. To complicate Bidault's task of Cabinetmaking, the Communists egged on the labor unions to demand inflationary wage increases to meet rising living costs...
...delegates, at a morning meeting, decided that Italy should keep the Pustertal area which Austria has demanded. After lunch Molotov telephoned to Byrnes at the Hotel Meurice, asking for a conference. They talked from 4 P.M. to 5 P.M., when they motored to the Luxembourg palace for a plenary meeting which lasted nearly three hours...
...Four prepared to sit down once more in the flag-bedecked Luxembourg Palace, a little good news filtered through the clouds...
...week dancing and deadlocks alternated. The turning point, perhaps of the whole Conference, came in a small, appropriately smoke-filled Second Empire room of Paris' Luxembourg Palace. Agreement was as far away as ever. Then Jimmy Byrnes, with a shrewd Irish glance at the silent gathering, shrewdly moved that the points of disagreement be summarized and submitted to a 21-power peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke...
...ceiling overhead was covered with a painting of a winged nude youth, the Spirit of the Arts, who gazed benevolently on sundry French peasants and workers tilling fields, building houses, digging holes and filling them up again. "Any time the Ministers think things are going badly," said the Luxembourg's curator, "all they need to do is lean back and gaze at the ceiling and realize things could be worse...