France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (63 page)

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66. Massigli to Bidault, January 30, 1948, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 15.
Young, France, the Cold War, and the Western Alliance,
cites Saint-Hardouin, 117.
67. Cabinet meeting of February 7, 1948, Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
2: 73; on February 5, Koenig met with Auriol and told him he thought that France had little choice but to join the bizone (68).
68. Catroux to Quai, August 8, 1947, MAE, Z-Europe 194449, URSS, vol. 44.
69. Seydoux to Jacques-Camille Paris, November 12, 1947; and for evidence of Soviet involvement, see Charpentier (Catroux's deputy) to Quai, December 29, 1947, both in MAE, Z-Europe 194449, URSS, vol. 44.
70. Dejean to Quai, February 23 and 27, 1948, MAE, Z-Europe 194449, Tchécoslovaquie, vol. 40.
71. Seydoux to Quai, February 28, 1948, MAE, Z-Europe 194449, Tchécoslovaquie, vol. 40; Dejean to Quai, March 5, 1948; and René Massigli, March 2, 1948, same file, vol. 41. Hervé Alphand reached the same conclusion: Alphand,
L'étannement de l'être,
206, 209. See also Kaplan,
The Short March: The Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia,
and Buffet,
Mourir pour Berlin,
8796.
72. Young,
Britain, France, and the Unity of Europe,
7785; Baylis,
The Diplomacy of Pragmatism,
6375.
73. Massigli to Paris, February 24, 25, and 26, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 300; Douglas to State, February 25, 26, and 28,
FRUS, 1948,
2: 8789, 9294, 98100. For a close look at Anglo-American policies at the London Conference, see Eisenberg,
Drawing the Line,
36479, 397404.
74. Douglas to State, March 6, 1948,
FRUS, 1948,
2: 13839; Alphand, March 8, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 399; March 10, 1948, Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
2: 135.
75. See the letter of the Socialist ministers to Prime Minister Schuman protesting Bidault's policies, April 22, in Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
2: 59698.
76. Cabinet meetings of May 12, 19, 26, June 8, 1948, in Auriol,
Journal du Septennat
. z: 22325, 23233, 23842, 258. For a superb account of the impact of the Berlin crisis on French official thinking, see Buffet,
Mourir pour Berlin,
99154.
77. Memorandum, Central Europe Office, May 7, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 381; and Memorandum from the Office of Economic and Financial Affairs, June 7, 1948, vol. 399. See Koenig's discussion with Auriol, May 4, in Auriol,
Journal du Septennat,
2: 210.

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