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...Drove through the rain to Union Station, where he met visiting French Prime Minister René Pleven, later settled down to a formal conference in the White House...
...Paris, where official appointments begin at 10 a.m., Ike was at Premier René Pleven's office door at 8. Half an hour later he was at the Quai d'Orsay conferring with Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Before 9 he moved on to talks with Defense Minister Jules Moch. He broke off intensive conferences with France's service chiefs only for an official luncheon. Said an astonished reporter: "The shortest that has ever been known. The guests were at the table for 40 minutes...
...Germans brooded over this indignity. Last month two Heidelberg students, 21-year-old Georg von Hatzfeld and 22-year-old René Leudesdorff, had an idea. Said Leudesdorff, an ardent United Europe supporter: "We suddenly saw that Helgoland was a symbol of injustice.* We decided to make an issue of Helgoland in order to clear everyone's conscience...
...Premier René Pleven's government is still fascinated by the old socialist slogan against the munitions manufacturers, "the merchants of death." Consequently, it will not turn to private enterprise for the weapons and equipment of the French army. The weapons that are to be produced in France will be made by the generally inefficient and high-cost government factories. The government is even reluctant to turn to private manufacturers to get buttons for military uniforms...
...discuss other possible, hoped-for alternatives, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived in Washington this week, after a conference with France's Premier René Pleven. Attlee came to argue for some sort of deal with the Communists, a prospect that still seemed to Europeans to have some meaning...