Word: pleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pleven, 68, Minister of Justice, also a Centrist, was twice Premier in the Fourth Republic and adds another pro-European voice to the Cabinet. A brisk and practical politician, Pleven served in De Gaulle's immediate postwar Cabinets, but went his own way after the general quit office in 1948. He was a chief author of the European Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into...
...your "roll call of great French diplomats," two more personalities should be mentioned: Schuman and Pleven, who planned two brilliant strokes of French diplomacy on the question of postwar German rearmament...
...Afterward the five-Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin, Rene Pleven and Rene Mayer-were invited to luncheon at the Metz prefecture by De Gaulle's representative, Minister of State Louis Joxe. But the ex-Premiers declined the invitation when they learned that Schuman's old friend Jean Monnet, who was also present, had been left out of the party...