Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real trouble was the French. It was they who devised the European army plan in the first place, knowing that they could not defend themselves without German help but unwilling to see Germany powerful again. Reluctantly at first, the U.S. had accepted Premier René Pleven's compromise: a European army to include twelve German army divisions, but barring a German general staff, limiting the divisions' size and armament, sprinkling them through the joint army to prevent them from homogenizing into a unified German army. To this international army France would contribute 14 divisions...
...Extremes. Now that the other NATO nations had bought the Pleven plan, Pleven's precarious government was acting as if it did not dare submit it to its own National Assembly. The two extremes of French politics, the Communists and the Gaullists, are whipping up opposition to the plan. Cried General Charles de Gaulle last week: "For centuries, our worth and weight has been identical with that of the French Army. We cannot, we must not lose our army...
...weeks ago, Premier René Pleven proclaimed austerity for France, and a Slash in imports of U.S. coal, ore and raw materials, in an effort to brake the run. But devaluation rumors had French capital badly scared...
...prevailing tone of voice here today is something between a whine and a growl. What sometimes muffles this unpleasant sound is the sweetly reasonable voice of Adenauer himself . . . He is for the Schuman (coal and steel) Plan and the Pleven (European army) Plan. He is against both neo-Nazis and Communists. He manages to be on the side of the angels, the Anglo-Saxons and even the French . . . But the voice of Adenauer is a voice that finds little echo in the German nation. He has great qualities, but not the capacity to evoke affection for himself or real enthusiasm...
Premier Rene Pleven's precarious four-month-old French government last week risked a vote of confidence. Pleven had had the courage to make the issue France's new austerity program : a 200-billion-franc tax increase, a 40% cut in dollar imports. He knew that he would be fought by Communists on the left and Gaullists on the right. He could not count on the help of the Socialists, who had announced that they would abstain. "If we get less than a ten-vote majority, we'll resign," said Pleven. "If we get more than twelve...