Word: debre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince for a parvenu, he shot a derisive shaft at Khrushchev, "whom I met not so very long ago in Moscow in Stalin's entourage and who has come some distance since...
...transfer of the Sixth Fleet during the Quemoy crisis-NATO had not been too scrupulously notified. What mattered this time was that De Gaulle was not pleading a necessity, but intending a rebuff. His ministers were almost apologetic in having to deliver it to allies. (Even ultranationalist Premier Michel Debré privately argued against De Gaulle's action.) De Gaulle was plainly 1) miffed at U.S. abstention during the last U.N. vote on the Algerian revolt, 2) determined to be admitted, along with Britain, as a senior partner in the Western alliance...
...puts a premium on murder," objected an indignant Algerian Moslem member of the National Assembly whose son and son-in-law were both killed by F.L.N. terrorists last month. Rumors spread through Paris and Algiers that private talks are being carried on by the French with F.L.N. representatives. Premier Debré insisted in the Assembly that De Gaulle's October invitation to Algerian leaders to come to Paris under safe-conduct to negotiate "a peace of the brave" was still open. "No other offer," said Debré, "has been or could ever be envisaged." Yet such denials...
...Debré, the able lawyer chiefly responsible for writing the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, is known in Gaullist circles as "the most faithful of the faithful." A practising Roman Catholic of partly Jewish ancestry, Debre has been a Gaullist since he escaped from a World War II Nazi prison camp to join the French Resistance. Mildness is not his style. Under the Fourth Republic, his ferocious attacks on the old parliamentary system both in France's Senate and in his weekly Messenger of Anger won him the nickname...
Roman Style. Despite an intellectual background-his father is president of the French Medical Academy-Debré is a singleminded, fire-eating French nationalist. One of France's loudest opponents of the ill-fated European Defense Community, he has long been vocally suspicious of U.S. policy toward France, still opposes the idea of European political unity inherent in the Common Market. He believes that De Gaulle's mandate was not a right-wing but a nationalist phenomenon. He would like to see De Gaulle function as a kind of Roman-style elected dictator-with-a-time-limit...