Word: pleven
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...month as Premier of France, wispy-looking Antoine Pinay, 60, had lost nine pounds. Most of it he lost preparing for the showdown that came last week over France's 1952 budget. He well knew that the budget had been the downfall of his two predecessors-René Pleven and Edgar Faure. They tried to balance the budget by taxing more; he proposed to do it by spending less. His simple suggestion had a staggering success...
First came the Marshall Plan, to set Western Europe's business on its feet. Then came the Schuman Plan, to pool six nations' coal and steel. After that came the Pleven Plan, to give Western Europeans a common army. Last week a new phrase was added to the lingo of international planners: the Green Pool...
...French parties, except the Communists, to join a "Government of National Union." It was a timely appeal for French patriotism, but as a political maneuver it failed. Socialists refused point-blank to sit in the same cabinet with Gaullists. Sadly, Paul Reynaud gave up trying. René Pleven, called upon next, refused even...
German truculence revived old French fears. "It is time to teach the Germans that they cannot have everything," snapped one French diplomat. In the heat of nationalism, both nations seemed to forget that the Schuman and Pleven Plans, which both are pledged to join, were designed to make such squabbles old-fashioned and unnecessary...
...Schuman Plan for pooling West Europe's coal and steel and the Pleven Plan for pooling its defense forces are first steps. Eisenhower's proposal for the next step: a constitutional convention of West European governments "reporting, let's say, in a year, or even a year and a half . . . The mere fact of the calling of such a convention would mean...