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. He was not
heard of again until a tract
bearing his signature and dat
ed April 9, 1962, reached the
offices of French newspapers
by mail a few days later.
Bidault is believed at that
time to have been in Switzer
land, at either Fribourg or
Berne.
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In the tract he announced
formation of the "National
Resistance Council" to lead
the campaign against Da
Gaulle's surrender of Algeria.
Whatever the reason. Bi-
daudt never liked De Gaulle.
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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