Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business Career: After flunking the difficult oral exams for a financial branch of the civil service, he entered private enterprise. Worked in Quebec for a telephone company, in Paris for U.S. investment bankers Blair & Co. Highly successful. As late as 1939, Pleven said: "Politics do not interest...
Next week's most distinguished foreign visitor to Washington: France's Premier Rene Pleven...
...Paris, where official appointments begin at 10 a.m., Ike was at Premier René Pleven's office door at 8. Half an hour later he was at the Quai d'Orsay conferring with Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Before 9 he moved on to talks with Defense Minister Jules Moch. He broke off intensive conferences with France's service chiefs only for an official luncheon. Said an astonished reporter: "The shortest that has ever been known. The guests were at the table for 40 minutes...
Premier René Pleven's government is still fascinated by the old socialist slogan against the munitions manufacturers, "the merchants of death." Consequently, it will not turn to private enterprise for the weapons and equipment of the French army. The weapons that are to be produced in France will be made by the generally inefficient and high-cost government factories. The government is even reluctant to turn to private manufacturers to get buttons for military uniforms...
Paris heard last week that the Communists planned a full-scale attack on Tonkin's Red River delta at the next full moon. Premier Rene Pleven called General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, one of France's best soldiers, and asked him to take on the tough job of defending Indo-China. Said De Lattre: "I accept because it is my duty...