Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French parties, except the Communists, to join a "Government of National Union." It was a timely appeal for French patriotism, but as a political maneuver it failed. Socialists refused point-blank to sit in the same cabinet with Gaullists. Sadly, Paul Reynaud gave up trying. René Pleven, called upon next, refused even...
German truculence revived old French fears. "It is time to teach the Germans that they cannot have everything," snapped one French diplomat. In the heat of nationalism, both nations seemed to forget that the Schuman and Pleven Plans, which both are pledged to join, were designed to make such squabbles old-fashioned and unnecessary...
...Schuman Plan for pooling West Europe's coal and steel and the Pleven Plan for pooling its defense forces are first steps. Eisenhower's proposal for the next step: a constitutional convention of West European governments "reporting, let's say, in a year, or even a year and a half . . . The mere fact of the calling of such a convention would mean...
Neither well known nor widely regarded until last week, Faure, of the conservative Radical Socialist Party, was Minister of Justice in the recent Pleven government. At 43, he is France's youngest Premier since 1893. The son of an army surgeon, he became a lawyer at 19, later an expert in Russian and other Slavic languages, married a literary wife and, under a pseudonym, wrote three detective novels himself. Faure fled occupied France to join General Charles de Gaulle's Free French in 1943, became the movement's assistant secretary general, and came back...
Republicans again held the key jobs: Foreign Minister Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister and Georges Bidault in Defense. Faure's cabinet, in fact, looks much like the last one, except that it is weaker at the top: Edgar Faure, on the record, is no match for Rene Pleven, who is now jobless. No one was ready to bet that Faure would last long...