Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's proposals and concessions that agreement turned. Schuman won his argument for the Pleven plan of integrating German troops into a supranational European army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...
Through France's political revolving door, seven potential Premiers have whizzed in, whizzed out in the past six weeks. All were unable to form a cabinet. Last week one succeeded. The new Premier: tall (6 ft. 2 in.) taciturn René Pleven, who affects Homburg hats and an arctic reserve. He succeeded partly because all France was tired of revolving door politics...
...night long, cars filed into the courtyard of the Hôtel Matignon, official residence of French Premiers, to discharge French politicians arriving to talk cabinet posts with Pleven. When ex-Premier Queuille's sleek Delahaye almost collided with Foreign Minister Schuman's modest Citroën, Passenger Queuille doffed his hat, asked: "Are you hurt?" Said Passenger Schuman: "No, but I'm in a hurry...
...Pleven snapped up Schuman's offer to continue as Foreign Minister; he made Vice Premiers of two other familiar faces: René Mayer, for Economic Affairs; Georges Bidault, for National Defense. He neatly skipped across the stumbling blocks which defeated seven men before him: let the Assembly decide whether there should be State aid to Catholic schools, he pleaded, and let there be some kind of wage increases. France's four bickering center parties, so uncompromising before, agreed in hope of giving France a little stability. The Socialists refused to join his government, but promised to support...
...during the choosing of the cabinet, up & coming Pierre Chevallier, 42, parliamentary leader of Pleven's own party, was repeatedly called to the telephone. Each time it was his wife. Yvonne, high-strung, green-eyed and 38, wanted him to come right home. He tried to tell her that big things were in the air; he was about to get his first cabinet job: Secretary of State for Technical Training, Youth and Sports. Yvonne was not impressed...