Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last occupation controls, substantially restore West German sovereignty. The U.S. hopes for a finished plan by late fall, France and Britain are in less of a hurry. ¶Also in Washington met U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, French Finance Minister René Mayer and the representatives of 47 other nations. Gathered to give the World Bank and International Monetary Fund a fiscal year-end review, they were telling stories of inflation and dollar gaps. Gaitskell promised that Britain would continue its rearmament, asked for U.S. help in obtaining scarce materials, particularly...
Through France's political revolving door, seven potential Premiers have whizzed in, whizzed out in the past six weeks. All were unable to form a cabinet. Last week one succeeded. The new Premier: tall (6 ft. 2 in.) taciturn René Pleven, who affects Homburg hats and an arctic reserve. He succeeded partly because all France was tired of revolving door politics...
Pleven snapped up Schuman's offer to continue as Foreign Minister; he made Vice Premiers of two other familiar faces: René Mayer, for Economic Affairs; Georges Bidault, for National Defense. He neatly skipped across the stumbling blocks which defeated seven men before him: let the Assembly decide whether there should be State aid to Catholic schools, he pleaded, and let there be some kind of wage increases. France's four bickering center parties, so uncompromising before, agreed in hope of giving France a little stability. The Socialists refused to join his government, but promised to support...
...René Pleven, 50, ex-businessman, ex-Premier and ex-Gaullist, who now leads an independent middle-of-the-road splinter party, at week's end agreed to take a crack at breaking the deadlock, eighth candidate since the election...
Last spring, France's René Pleven, then Premier, offered a compromise: a European army of which German contingents larger than "combat teams" could be a part. For five months French, West German, Italian, Belgian and Luxembourg delegates (the British, Dutch and Scandinavians hung back) have been meeting in Paris, trying to transform the Pleven plan into reality...