Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Rene Pleven, in office for seven months, had resigned after failing to get the parties in his Third Force coalition to agree on a plan to change France's election law. Wrapped up in the electoral issue is the political future of France. Unless the election system is drastically changed, French governments will continue to totter along with weak coalitions of fractional parties facing a solid Communist bloc. The electoral fight boils down to one question: Are the differences between the non-Communist parties greater than the difference between them as a group and the Communists...
Almost every reform proposal put forward by Pleven was hammered to death by the combination of one of these parties and the consistently opposed Communists. When the two-ballot system came before the Assembly's suffrage committee, it was beaten by the Communists and the M.R.P. When a party alliance clause (favorable to the M.R.P.) came up, it was beaten by the Communists and the Radicals...
...faithful TIME reader for 20 years, allow me to praise you for your biographical notes, beginning with France's Premier René Pleven [TiME, Jan. 29] and continuing, in your Feb. 5 issue, with Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. They are marvelous syntheses of unprejudiced, impartial and accurate facts...
...Pleven walked out of the White House wreathed in smiles. He had reassured himself on U.S. intentions, had also reassured the U.S. on France's willingness to do her part. He had made a big hit in Washington. Said Harry Truman: "I like this
Before he went home, Pleven and Foreign Policy Adviser Averell Harriman were honor guests at a luncheon of the National Press Club. Said Pleven: "France is your ally and not just a fair-weather friend ... I want this clearly understood by any group that may be plotting against us ... We will never forget that our cause is our way of life-that it must and will be defended...