Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days the delegates fumed and sputtered. They proposed to censure the Government by sharply reducing appropriations for the Justice Ministry. Finance Minister René Pleven dissuaded them. But they voted (174 to 14) for another censorious resolution...
...next step is up to France's new Minister of Finance, René Pleven. Known better as a colonial administrator than financier, he nevertheless has a solid industrial background, the deft hand which will be needed in dealing with the public. And he has one sturdy prop: the U.S. army in France is, in effect, a huge tourist army. The U.S. Treasury now buys francs to pay these troops, supplements the francs with invasion currency, also redeemed by the U.S. Thus, France is building up its dollar credits at the rate of millions monthly. (In 1937, U.S. tourists spent...
...partner in, not a victim of, Japan's aggression. Unofficially, restaurants began calling Vichyssoise "De Gaulle soup." There was no question of U.S. "recognition" of Free France, since Free France is not a government, but General de Gaulle's chief civilian aide, tall, gaunt René Pleven, was urging aid under the Lend-Lease Act in order to convince Frenchmen in France that the U.S. is behind De Gaulle and his forces of liberation...
...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...