Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within 15 minutes of the Assembly vote that felled them, Premier René Pleven and his cabinet ministers sped to the presidential palace in their official black cars and submitted their resignations to President Vincent Auriol, getting into their usual traffic snarl in the courtyard. Then they rushed back to carry on their cabinet assignments as before, until a new cabinet emerged...
...Paris last week, Premier René Pleven gave French deputies a lesson in elementary economics. "I am amazed," he said, "that no one has pointed out the real reason why prices have risen more sharply in France than elsewhere in Europe. The coal price influences the cost of almost everything else...
Fallen after five months in office, several stays of execution: Premier René Pleven's French coalition-of-the-center government. His was the eleventh French government (usually with the same ministers changing chairs) to fall during the lifetime of the Fourth French Republic...
...Socialists, who had supported the Pleven cabinet on most issues, deserted when the Premier asked the National Assembly to authorize economies designed to reduce the $400 million annual deficit of France's nationalized railway system. That licked the motion-and the government-by a whopping 98 votes...
...visit to Paris last week was plainly designed to allay French fears before he set sail on the Queen Mary this week for his first official trip to the U.S. since the war. He wanted to assure his political next-door neighbor, French Premier Rene Pleven, that he would make no deals with the Americans which left France out in the cold. And he made it plain that Britain's refusal to join a Western Europe economic or military federation did not mean that it was opposed to either, or that it would not cooperate with them if they...