Word: pleven
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...troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
...most of the week, Harry Truman had been wearing his Executive and Commander in Chief hats for the top-level conferences with French Prime Minister Rene Pleven. While briefcase-toting political and military advisers scurried importantly in & out of the green-draped Cabinet ^ Room, Truman and Pleven, talking in English without interpreters,' got down to brass tacks...
...Pleven walked out of the White House wreathed in smiles. He had reassured himself on U.S. intentions, had also reassured the U.S. on France's willingness to do her part. He had made a big hit in Washington. Said Harry Truman: "I like this
Before he went home, Pleven and Foreign Policy Adviser Averell Harriman were honor guests at a luncheon of the National Press Club. Said Pleven: "France is your ally and not just a fair-weather friend ... I want this clearly understood by any group that may be plotting against us ... We will never forget that our cause is our way of life-that it must and will be defended...
...Drove through the rain to Union Station, where he met visiting French Prime Minister René Pleven, later settled down to a formal conference in the White House...