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Waiting Outside. His new cabinet includes 20 members of the previous Pinay cabinet, among them Defense Minister Rene Pleven. Biggest change was that of Georges Bidault for Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister. Both men are of the same party, the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), but of very different character. A clandestine resistance leader, Bidault was De Gaulle's Foreign Minister in the Provisional government. Later he represented France at the San Francisco Conference, and vigorously pushed ratification of the agreements which are the basis of the present EDC negotiations. Premier in 1950, Vice Premier and Defense Minister in several governments...
...liked and successful physician, a hero of the resistance, the respected mayor of Orleans, a junior cabinet minister at 42. The promises he made to his bride Yvonne were less handsomely honored. A year ago, Yvonne shot her brilliant husband dead, just a day after his appointment to Rene Pleven's cabinet as Secretary of State for Technical Instruction, Youth & Sport (TIME...
...Paris, while the press fumed, Defense Minister René Pleven assured the Assembly that, although the fall of Nghialo was "painful for our prestige and losses we have suffered," neither the "means to fight" the six-year-long war nor the "ability to maneuver" had been lost. But a gloomy reserve officer said: "It looks as though from now on the Indo-Chinese war is to be a permanent nightmare...
Some Paris newspapers called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...Orly Field in Paris, the Defense Minister of France led the five-star general to a brace of microphones. Said Rene Pleven: "France will always keep in her heart the memory of what you have done for her liberation." Responded the general: "There is nothing to be afraid of . . . You have real friends across the sea . . . Never forget that." With obvious emotions, Dwight Eisenhower grasped the hand of one of his co-founders of the European defense force. Then he swung up the ramp behind Mamie Eisenhower, waved his cap from the door of the Air Force Constellation, smiled...