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...country. If a unified Germany gave troops for allied defense, the Western front would reach the Polish border. Neither the Russians nor the Allies would permit this situation. The German Social Democrats, furthermore, will object to the rearmament plan as it now stands because it closely resembles the Pleven Plan which they have always opposed. As a result, Bonn may face a serious political crisis before rearmament is settled...
...Pleven Plan was the first move to solve the German military problem. Reflecting French opinion, it called for twelve basic units of under 6000 troops each with an international command down to the divisional level. No German officers could participate. France, particularly, wanted to prevent production of war equipment in the Ruhr industries because of any possible future threat...
...France's proposals and concessions that agreement turned. Schuman won his argument for the Pleven plan of integrating German troops into a supranational European army. But, at Acheson's urging, he agreed to allow German troops to be called up by the Bonn government and trained by the U.S. before the European army was fully set up. Morrison abandoned Britain's opposition to the Schuman plan of international control of the Ruhr. But he got Schuman to concede that Britain need not be a full partner, promising only "the closest possible association...
...Pleven snapped up Schuman's offer to continue as Foreign Minister; he made Vice Premiers of two other familiar faces: René Mayer, for Economic Affairs; Georges Bidault, for National Defense. He neatly skipped across the stumbling blocks which defeated seven men before him: let the Assembly decide whether there should be State aid to Catholic schools, he pleaded, and let there be some kind of wage increases. France's four bickering center parties, so uncompromising before, agreed in hope of giving France a little stability. The Socialists refused to join his government, but promised to support...
...during the choosing of the cabinet, up & coming Pierre Chevallier, 42, parliamentary leader of Pleven's own party, was repeatedly called to the telephone. Each time it was his wife. Yvonne, high-strung, green-eyed and 38, wanted him to come right home. He tried to tell her that big things were in the air; he was about to get his first cabinet job: Secretary of State for Technical Training, Youth and Sports. Yvonne was not impressed...