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Business Career: After flunking the difficult oral exams for a financial branch of the civil service, he entered private enterprise. Worked in Quebec for a telephone company, in Paris for U.S. investment bankers Blair & Co. Highly successful. As late as 1939, Pleven said: "Politics do not interest...
Next week's most distinguished foreign visitor to Washington: France's Premier Rene Pleven...
After a decade of politicking, Pleven quips: "I have lost my innocence, but I have not lost my integrity...
Purpose of His Visit: Pleven & Truman will discuss U.S. aid for Indo-China, the Korean situation, French and German rearmament, a possible conference with Russia. Pleven laid himself open to Gaullist criticism of second-fiddling when he did not accompany Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee to Washington in December. Now he hopes to regain face for France...
...Paris, where official appointments begin at 10 a.m., Ike was at Premier René Pleven's office door at 8. Half an hour later he was at the Quai d'Orsay conferring with Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Before 9 he moved on to talks with Defense Minister Jules Moch. He broke off intensive conferences with France's service chiefs only for an official luncheon. Said an astonished reporter: "The shortest that has ever been known. The guests were at the table for 40 minutes...