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When the defense ministers of the Atlantic Pact countries met in Washington two weeks ago to bring about a unified armed force for Europe, France stuck by a plan proposed by her premier, Rone Pleven: 1. that the German components of that force be limited to batallions (or regiments); 2. that Germany should receive arms under the plan only after all the other members had been fully supplied; 3. that a supra-national European defense ministry be set up; 4. that certain parts of the Schuman Plan be put into effect before there was any action on German rearmament...
...France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...
Premier René Pleven's cabinet of Socialists, Popular Republicans, other center and moderate right parties, formed last July, shooed off the Assembly for a pro longed vacation. Then Pleven announced a forceful program. He wanted to increase compulsory military service from 12 to 18 months, to double the military budget, to outlaw Communist spies and saboteurs, etc. But to translate all this into action, he still needed the Assembly. Last week the legislators came back to Paris. Pleven's cabinet immediately found itself teetering. Its survival was threatened by four issues...
...German rearmament had split Pleven's ministers. The Socialists were dragging their feet over the issue. One of their spokesmen, Defense Minister Jules Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...Pleven was pushing electoral reform. In place of proportional representation, a clumsy failure because it encourages multiple-party paralysis, the Premier proposed a "système majoritaire," which would build up a few strong parties at the expense of the weakest. Pleven was determined to fight for this program, even if it meant his downfall...