Key Information
Reference code
DOBRSKI 41
Title
Briefing notes for Rene Pleven, French Minister of Defence, 1949
Date(s)
- 1949 Oct 30 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
10pp
Scope and content
Typescript report by an unnamed friend [Dobrski?] of René Pleven, newly appointed French Minister of Defence, to be used to brief FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, prior to his meeting Pleven, and containing details of Pleven's views on the French political situation, policy towards French Indo-China, and the High Command of the French Army, including Gen Georges Revers, Général d'armée; Gen Pierre Gaston Billotte, Head of the French Military Delegation to the UN; Gen Antoine Marie Émile Béthouart, French High Commissioner in Austria; Gen Marie Pierre Koenig, Inspector of North African Forces. 10pp