Word: pleven
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...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...
...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...
Champion of the fight for ratification was Premier Rene Pleven, an astute, dedicated "European." He had plenty of opposition. "A capitalist supermonopoly, controlled by American high finance," blustered Communist Deputy Florimond Bonte on the left. "Let's wait," argued the Gaullists on the right. "First we must organize Europe politically...
...talked and outmaneuvered his opponents. He made the Schuman Plan a vote of confidence in his government. "We are not talking of trial marriage," he explained. "We want to create indissoluble economic bonds. You, gentlemen, you will not refuse Europe this first and perhaps only chance to live." Pleven cozened the Peasant Deputies by promising bigger farm loans, made sure of the Socialists by agreeing to drop income taxes on low-income groups. The debate waxed emotional. An Independent accused the government of selling out to the Germans: "We give to Germany what she desires, and we renounce...
...week there were almost daily meetings of diplomats, economists and soldiers, engaged in a kind of piecemeal federation. The six key nations of Western Europe were closer than ever before to adopting the Schuman Plan (see above). They were solemnly (if disputatiously) engaged in negotiating the even more revolutionary Pleven Plan for transforming their land, sea and air forces into a single European army. Under it, France and Germany would fight shoulder to shoulder, side by side with Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg...