Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pleven, 50, ex-businessman, ex-Premier and ex-Gaullist, who now leads an independent middle-of-the-road splinter party, at week's end agreed to take a crack at breaking the deadlock, eighth candidate since the election...
Last spring, France's René Pleven, then Premier, offered a compromise: a European army of which German contingents larger than "combat teams" could be a part. For five months French, West German, Italian, Belgian and Luxembourg delegates (the British, Dutch and Scandinavians hung back) have been meeting in Paris, trying to transform the Pleven plan into reality...
Then, last month, Ike Eisenhower lost his patience, began to do a little discreet knuckle-rapping. Under Ike's prodding the French gave up some of their demands, the Germans began to warm to the Pleven plan. Last week the Paris delegates initialed an interim report on a European army suggesting...
Irreducible Blocs. After 18 election plans had been cold-shouldered by the committee, Pleven two weeks ago put a last government compromise up for general Assembly debate. The Assembly encouragingly voted for the principle of reform, 327 to 166. Only the Communists dissented. Then the rival parties knocked down twelve plans for implementing...
...otherwise paid no attention. By Wednesday afternoon the opposing blocs were almost equal. All hope of putting through any plan was gone. Without risking an adverse vote of confidence (which would have forced inclusion of Communists in an all-party caretaker government pending an election under the old law), Pleven quickly resigned...