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Premier René Pleven's government is still fascinated by the old socialist slogan against the munitions manufacturers, "the merchants of death." Consequently, it will not turn to private enterprise for the weapons and equipment of the French army. The weapons that are to be produced in France will be made by the generally inefficient and high-cost government factories. The government is even reluctant to turn to private manufacturers to get buttons for military uniforms...
Paris heard last week that the Communists planned a full-scale attack on Tonkin's Red River delta at the next full moon. Premier Rene Pleven called General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, one of France's best soldiers, and asked him to take on the tough job of defending Indo-China. Said De Lattre: "I accept because it is my duty...
...discuss other possible, hoped-for alternatives, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived in Washington this week, after a conference with France's Premier René Pleven. Attlee came to argue for some sort of deal with the Communists, a prospect that still seemed to Europeans to have some meaning...
This was the view of nearly all British leaders, Tory, Liberal or Socialist. It was the view that French Premier Rene Pleven and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman had urged upon Attlee shortly before Attlee left for Washington. And it was the view that Attlee was urging upon Harry Truman in Washington this week...
France's coalition government was a vote of confidence last night in a parliamentary storm on the eve of Premier Rene Pleven's flight to confer with Attlee. Communists and extreme right-wingers attacked the administration but were defeated when Ploven's government received a comfortable margin of 347 votes to 184 on alleged irregularities in their Indo-China defense...