 | was published in Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
1: 69599. Though undated, the memo was given to Auriol on July 30, 1947.
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| 23. Massigli to Bidault. July 28, 1947, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60; see Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
1: 336, 367, 380. The influential Socialist leader Léon Blum supported these views:
L'oeuvre de Léon Blum, 19471950,
41.
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| 24. Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
August 4, 1947, 1: 382.
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| 25. Ibid., August 7, 1947, 1: 700703. This letter is in Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60.
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| 26. August 5 and 14, 1947, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 399.
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| 27. See, for example, Bonnet's conversation with Marshall on August 5, and Clayton's report on his lunch with Monnet and Bidault on August 7, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 102124.
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| 28. Marshall to Douglas, August 12, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 102729.
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| 29. Memorandum of Conversation, Lovett and Bonnet, August 21, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 104647.
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| 30. Caffery, Clayton, and Douglas to Lovett, August 14, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
2: 103335; and Hickerson to Lovett, August 20 and 23, 1947, NARA, RG 59, Lot 53 D 246, box 2. Hickerson wondered why the United States was not willing "to sweeten this bitter pill" of the level-of-industry plan, and feared a serious French reaction (August 20). Three days later, he again pleaded that the French proposal be accepted, especially because it "represents a very considerable concession and endeavor to meet United States views." He believed that the "United States and French positions are now so close that it should be possible to formulate an agreement in principle" that could be worked out later (August 23).
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| 31. The communiqué and the plan may be found in Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Documents,
23845.
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| 32. Caffery to State, relating a memo on the subject from Bidault, September 12, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
3: 747; and Clayton and Douglas to State, September 23, 1947, ibid., 44546.
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| 33. See, just as examples, telegrams of September 30 and October 17, 1947,
FRUS, 1947,
3: 761, 77880.
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