Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American: General Alfred M. Gruenther. West Germany has no army, and as a defeated enemy, may not legally rearm until a peace treaty has been signed and sealed. To make German arms palatable to Europeans who still bore the teethmarks of Nazi aggression, a Frenchman (ex-Premier René Pleven) suggested EDC, which would add German strength to NATO, but still enable the West to keep an eye on German militarism...
...heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...
Waiting Outside. His new cabinet includes 20 members of the previous Pinay cabinet, among them Defense Minister Rene Pleven. Biggest change was that of Georges Bidault for Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister. Both men are of the same party, the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), but of very different character. A clandestine resistance leader, Bidault was De Gaulle's Foreign Minister in the Provisional government. Later he represented France at the San Francisco Conference, and vigorously pushed ratification of the agreements which are the basis of the present EDC negotiations. Premier in 1950, Vice Premier and Defense Minister in several governments...
...later, French Commissioner for German Affairs. In 1947 he represented France at the U.N. As Finance Minister in the first Schuman cabinet, he devalued the franc over Sir Stafford Cripps's objections. Becoming Finance Minister again in 1951, he angered France (and helped topple the government of Rene Pleven) by introducing, and sticking to, an austerity budget plan. Commented Mayer: "A good Finance Minister is always unpopular." In debate he is austere and biting: admired, not adored. Foreign Policy: Within his own Radical Socialist Party, he opposed the position taken by Leaders Herriot and Daladier against the European Army...
...liked and successful physician, a hero of the resistance, the respected mayor of Orleans, a junior cabinet minister at 42. The promises he made to his bride Yvonne were less handsomely honored. A year ago, Yvonne shot her brilliant husband dead, just a day after his appointment to Rene Pleven's cabinet as Secretary of State for Technical Instruction, Youth & Sport (TIME...