Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris back in 1953, life can be lonely for the Soviet ambassador to a Western capital-even when that capital has a solid Communist minority, ranging from tough factory hands to the mandarins of the Left Bank. In 1953, Vinogradov got a deliberately perfunctory greeting from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and some newsmen even ungenerously commented on the new ambassador's baggy appearance. But soon Paris began to take a second look...
Faced with the two-pistol technique, the panicky leaders of the Fourth Republic rapidly wilted. "Each day," complained ex-Premier Georges Bidault, "our position toward De Gaulle changes. Yesterday we were standing; today we are on our knees; tomorrow we will be on our bellies...
Leading candidates who failed of a majority the first time would have to run next Sunday, and in this category were ex-Premiers Mollet, Georges Bidault, Paul Reynaud and Felix Gaillard. Even though there was a big Communist vote, most of their leaders failed to get elected even in safe constituencies, and must face runoffs where other candidates will combine against them...
...impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name, at least some sort of unofficial blessing. "Gaullism," said Georges Bidault wryly, "is a cathedral, open to all, with only dogs, assassins and the plague excluded...
Political Career. Won a seat in the Constituent Assembly in 1945 as a member of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. (Popular Republican Movement). Has held office, usually as Minister of Agriculture, in 15 different postwar Cabinets. In 1949 he abruptly quit the Cabinet of his fellow Popular Republican Georges Bidault, sometime Foreign Minister in the De Gaulle Cabinet (1944), in protest against the government's failure to keep up the price of sugar beets. A year ago Pflimlin wrested the M.R.P. leadership from Bidault, an increasingly bitter man who alone in his party advocates a tough policy in Algeria. Pflimlin...