 | foreign policy adviser, Lapie,
De Léan Blum à de Gaulle,
174. On the Dunkirk Treaty, see Greenwood, "Return to Dunkirk: The Origins of the Anglo-French Treaty of March 1947"; Young,
Britain, France and the Unity of Europe,
4351; Baylis,
Diplomacy of Pragmatism,
5962. Baylis reproduces the text of the Dunkirk Treaty, 13133.
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| 69. Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
1: 13132; and see Teitgen's memo of March 12, 1947 (Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60). Teitgen, meeting George Marshall in Paris in Bidault's absence, went so far as to assure the American that "if the United States could find a way to meet French views on German coal exports, the French would find it possible to go along with the United States views on other German problems" (Minutes of Converstion, March 6, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 19095).
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| 70. Memorandum of Conversation, Marshall, Bidault, Matthews, and Alphand, March 13, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 249.
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| 71. Massigli reported that the zonal merger would increase coal production, but expressed the fear that this increase would be used for German consumption, not French (March 24, 1947, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 399). For a summary of the French position on the eve of Moscow, see section K of "Policy Papers Prepared by the Department of State," February 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 22023. These position papers recommended that the United States oppose international ownership as outlined by the French.
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| 72. Bevin urged Marshall to raise the bizone's level of industry (Memorandum of Conversation, Marshall and Bevin, April 8, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 31517; and memo of General Sir Brian Robertson, British military governor, April 17, 1947, ibid., 47981). For a full account of Bevin's plans for the bizone, see Deighton,
The Impossible Peace,
esp. 10534.
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| 73. Minister of National Economy to Minister of Foreign Affairs, March 1947, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60.
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| 74.
Observations générales sur les discussions de la Conférence de Moscou,
n.d., Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 13; Bidault,
Resistance,
14349.
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| 75. See Bidault's report to the cabinet in Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
1: 224; the details of the sliding scale are laid out in
FRUS, 1947,
2: 47291.
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| 76. Memorandum of Conversation, Marshall and Bidault, April 20, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 36771; and Caffery to State, March 25, 1947, ibid., 400401.
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| 77. Minutes of the Executive Commission, May 2, 1947, MRP Papers, AN, 350 AP, box 45; Bidault,
Resistance,
14849. See also Elgey,
République des illusions,
282, on Bidault's anger with the Soviets.
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| 78. For Bidault's report to the cabinet on May 9, 1947, see Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
1: 22223.
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