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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 19S3 "J Bidault Grows Old as Rebel Chief in Anti-DeGau He Movement ' Editor's note: In the recent feuding between Britain and France, brought to crisis point by French rejection of British entry in the" common market, there have been many irri tants. Not the least of them was the airing by British broadcasters corporation of a television interview this month with Georges Bidault, twice a premier of France. Nnow a fugitive dedicated to overthrow of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Here is a report on Bidault by a United Press International correspondent who has covered the French scene for many years. By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Preis International Paris-OIPD - The date was Aug. 23, 1944. Paris had been liberated and the small, shy, rather shabbily dressed man standing on the steps of the aPris city hall was trembling with anticipatory eagerness. It was a moment for which he had waited, fought and risked his life for more than a year to meet General Charles de Gaulle, the man of Lorraine, the fabled leader of Free France. The little . man, ' close to tears in this moment of ten sion, was Georges Bidault, later to be twice premier pf France but on that day a hardly known man, since Aug ust, 1943 had headed the Na tional Resistance council in ocupied France and been De Gaulle's chief representative in the country- Bidault and De Gaulle until that day had known each other only through their com munciations. They had never met. As tens of thousands jam ming the city city hall de liriously, De Gaulle was in troduced to the underground leader. What happened then was told to me soon after wards by Bidault. De Gaulla Cold Looking down from his full height of six feet three, De Gaulle peered myopically at Bidault, standing barely five feet eight in his shoes. Bidault expected tears, embraces, an emotional hug, A Gallic kiss on both cheeks. "Bonjour, Monsieur," said De Gaulle coldly. And moved on to the next resistance lead- Bidaudt never forgot the letdown, the virtual snub, of the first meeting. There are some today who say it may been what set him on the road to open rebellion against De Gaulle, to a dedication to his removal by force or otherwise. For the part he played in the resistance De Gaulle re warded Bidault with the job of France's first post-liberation foreign minister a job he was to hold many times in many fourth republic govern ments afterwards. Bidault is said to be re living that heroic past now. Those who have seen him in his exiled wanderings during the past year in Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium and England say he talks much about the wartime CNR and his own feats as its leader. Draws Parallel They say he tends constant ly to draw historic parallels between the two. At the headquarters he shared until recently in Mun ich with the other rebel lead ers, Jacques Soustelle, former General Paul Gardy and for mer Colonel Antoine Argoud, who in February was kidnap ped to France and arrested, Bidault was known as "the professor." French authorities believe Bidault whose arrest was formally ordered last August is in tact largely a figurehead and that the real leader of the anti-de Gaulle movement until his capture was Argoud. Now the true leadership is thought to have shifted to Argoud's aides, former Capt. Jean Curutchet and former Capt. Rene Sergent, two of the most wanted French ter rorists today. French police believe Bi dault skipped the country to take over the leadership of the anti-de Gaulle movement just about a year ago. Police records show he at tended a funeral at Mt. Etienne, in central France, on March 2, 1962. 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There never was any feeling of warmth between them. Today that coldness has turned to a hatred that prompted Bidault to claim in " an interview televised by the British Broadcasting corpor ation on March 4 that he be lieved he could muster enough support to overthrow Da Gaulle "by such means as are left to us by this dic tatorial regime." Few in France doubted Bi- daudt would be prepared to have De Gaulle assassinated, if that were the only means of getting rid of him. Those who have seen BI- dault recently an aging, graying figure of 62, skipping clandestinely from country to country as a conspirator want ed by the French police say he is living far back in the past. The very name of "Nation al Resistance Council", tha underground movement In ' exile which he created against ' De Gaulle In 1962, was taken from the original national re sistance council (CNR). Bidault became wartime CNR head in August, 1943, after the betrayal and arrest of Its previous leader Jean Moulin, known in the under ground as "Max." Moulin . later was executed by tha Nazis. ., - ' For the next year, as Bi dault used to tell listeners afterwards, he seldom slept two consecutive nights under? the same roof. He was always on the run, always just ona jump ahead of the Nazi Ges tapo. It was not until after tha liberation that his true ident ity was announced. His of ficial photograph published at that time showed a slim. - dark-hired young man-he was 45 wearing a small Hit- . ler mustache. He shaved it off soon afterwards. From then on Bidault has . wandered from country to country. His wife suzy, a career I French foreign service officer 1 whom Bidault married in 1 1946 when he was her boss, 1 spends part of her time in 1 f 1 . 1 . trips to visit him abroad. She was hauled In once by French police last year for questioning. But she told them that, by agreement, she and her husband never discussed their respective business af fairs together. "He is a politican and I am a civil servant." she said. ' She was released and still officially Is director of French . office of refugees, although -mostly on leave of absence for health reasons. The anti-de Gaulle move- ment-and Bidault - suffered a grievous blow in the arrest last April of former General Raoul Salan, now serving a life jail sentence. Bidault had placed himself under Satan's leadership. The arrest left him sole figurehead boss. Bldault's BBC television appearance showed he had aged greatly In the past year. His hair Is white, his voice and appearance those of a man far older than 62. He is said to drink quite heavily. From resistance leader to premier to fugitive rebel chief has been a long road for Georges Bidault. Once it was a glory road, now It just seems a lad one. 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