Word: pleven
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...what is that other noise? Jeering whistles, faint calls of "Vive De Gaulle!" It is the first time such sounds have fallen on the ears of the respected Coty in the course of his official duties. Are the citizens impatient with Reneé Pleven's 16-day effort to form a government? Never fear. M. Pleven has finally named his Cabinet this morning, and the National Assembly has been convoked to pass upon it. Calmly, Coty lays a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, below the chiseled names of battles won long...
...party's 75 members in the Assembly had joined him in voting to bring down Gaillard. Having given Bidault and his policy of even harsher prosecution of the Algerian war a chance, President René Coty next turned to big (6 ft. 2 in.), earnest René Pleven, a middle-of-the-roader who has suggested that the ideal relationship between France and her former colonies would be "a federation of republics...
...news of Pleven's nomination, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba promptly announced that he no longer intended to reopen Tunisia's U.N. Security Council complaint against France over French air force bombing of the village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef (TIME, Feb. 17). Said Bourguiba: "Monsieur Bidault's setback is an encouraging sign. His failure shows that there does not exist in the French Parliament . . . any majority for an extremist policy...
...Pinay, when members of his Independent Party pressured him to take on the job of trying to form a new government. Two other Premiers had already tried and failed: Socialist Guy Mollet, representing the biggest bloc (100 seats) among the parties who more or less govern France, and Rene Pleven, whose left-center U.D.S.R. is the smallest (7 seats...
...signs were that De Gaulle was right. In the approved manner, quiet President René Coty let the crisis "ripen" for three days, then called in Socialist Guy Mollet, and asked him to form a government. When Mollet admitted defeat, Coty turned to René Pleven, head of the small U.D.S.R., whose chances of success were, if anything, less than Mollet...