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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
Bidault, Georges-Augustin, 1899-1983
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON
December 22, 1949
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
FRANCE
In reviewing the current political scene in France, our
Embassy in Paris points out that the country is currently
in the throes of a basic political realignment with possible far-
reaching consequences. None of the major conflicts within the govern-
ment has been solved and the at mosphere of party rivalry and strife
has actually increased in recent months. With both the Socialists
and Radical Socialists now committed to reviewing their continued
participation in the Bidault government early in the new year, it
is difficult to see how a government crisis can long be diverted.
In the opinion of the Embassy another crisis will be even more diffi-
cult of solution than the last; and while a great many people are
turning more and more to dissolution of the Assembly as the answer
to the problem, new elections under the present electoral law would
solve nothing. A revised electoral law would probably lead to the
election of a strongly conservative and rightist government, largely
under the influence of de Gaulle; the only apparent alternative to
this is the continuation of the present type of uneasy coalition
governments with a slightly left of center complexion.
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