France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (47 page)

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tisme,
71114; Quillot,
La SFIO et l'exercice du pouvoir,
5659; and Colton,
Léwon Blum,
455-61. "The Communists never forgave Blum for his role in blocking unity," contends Colton (459).
13. Campaign poster, MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 1.
14.
Pour rebatir la France,
papers prepared for the First National Congress, November 2526, 1944, MRP Papers, AN, 350 AP, box 12.
15.
Compte rendu du Comité directeur,
June2324, 1945, MRP papers, AN, 350 1 AP, box 1. On Christian Democracy generally, see Rémond,
Les droites en France,
241; Mayeur and Rebérioux,
The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War,
300302; Bernard and Dubief,
The Decline of the Third Republic,
25357.
16. Minutes of the Executive Commission, August 9, 1945, MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 45.
17. Teitgen,
Faites entrer le témoin suivant,
308.-An article in
Le Monde
on January 22, 1946, stated that de Gaulle's departure caused "more sadness and apprehension than surprise"; the paper then went on to suggest in two editorials that France could survive without him.
18. There are various versions of this meeting, including Lacouture,
De Gaulle,
2: 23849, and Elgey,
La République des illusions,
85113. De Gaulle, of course, provides his own account, in
Mémoires de guerre,
3: 28490.
19. The minutes of this meeting of the Executive Commission of the MRP, held at 5:30 p.m. on January 20 at the Quai d'Orsay, may be found in MRP papers, AN, 350 AP, box 45, and Teitgen,
Faites entrer,
56775.
20. The phrase is Crozier's,
La société bloquée;
and see Rioux,
The Fourth Republic,
106. On the constitutional settlement in general, see Goguel,
France under the Fourth Republic,
157, and Williams,
Crisis and Compromise
.
21. Larkin,
France since the Popular Front,
151. For similar views, see Wright,
The Reshaping of French Democracy,
23157, and Thomson,
Democracy in France since 1870,
23758.
22. De Gaulle,
Mémoirs de guerre,
3:240, 258; Frenay,
La nuit finira,
561; see also Bourdet,
L'aventure incertaine,
430.
23. Luethy,
France against Herself,
40. For a similar line of contemporary analysis, see Schoenbrun.
As Franee Goes,
15264.

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