Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
...most of the week, Harry Truman had been wearing his Executive and Commander in Chief hats for the top-level conferences with French Prime Minister Rene Pleven. While briefcase-toting political and military advisers scurried importantly in & out of the green-draped Cabinet ^ Room, Truman and Pleven, talking in English without interpreters,' got down to brass tacks...
...Drove through the rain to Union Station, where he met visiting French Prime Minister René Pleven, later settled down to a formal conference in the White House...
After a decade of politicking, Pleven quips: "I have lost my innocence, but I have not lost my integrity...
Purpose of His Visit: Pleven & Truman will discuss U.S. aid for Indo-China, the Korean situation, French and German rearmament, a possible conference with Russia. Pleven laid himself open to Gaullist criticism of second-fiddling when he did not accompany Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee to Washington in December. Now he hopes to regain face for France...