Word: debre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to the Gaullist fold three years later. As Foreign Minister, he is expected not to initiate any drastic changes in France's basic policy, but rather to give it a Pompidoulian cast. That is, as one diplomat suggested, "instead of the shouted non" like that of Debré, "Schumann's non will be far more gentle and perhaps even negotiable...
...panoply of the inaugural could not conceal the anxieties and tensions that gnaw at the Gaullist party. Arriving late at the Elysée, Michel Debré, one of De Gaulle's most loyal ministers, seemed agitated. Former Culture Minister Andre Malraux, the ideologue of Gaullism, also seemed nervous, bringing his left hand to his mouth as if to bite his nails. Outgoing Premier Maurice Couve de Murville looked even more icy and dour than usual. The old Gaullist veterans remember all too well that in 1953, the last time De Gaulle huffily retired from French politics, the party...
...Gaullist government was, said a Minister, "glacial." Poher's aides gaily replied that if the Ministers had found the meeting frosty, Poher had warmly enjoyed himself. The interim President was not amused, however, when a few hours later news agencies carried the remarks of Foreign Minister Michel Debré made at the meeting, that "France suffered a defeat last Sunday." Poher's office issued a sharp rebuke, noting that Ministers were not authorized to disclose the Cabinet's secret deliberations...
...desperately to the WEU as its only regular forum for multilateral conversations with the Six. When France refused to attend this month's WEU meeting, Paris claimed that what Britain wanted to discuss was the Common Market, a subject technically off-limits to the WEU. Foreign Minister Michel Debré once more raised De Gaulle's favorite specter of Anglo-Saxon conspiracy. Debré declared haughtily: "France considers that the British, who are always inclined to align themselves behind American positions, are not yet ready to join the European community, whose vocation is independence...
Foreign Minister Michel Debré was droning on during the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysée Palace when Charles de Gaulle, tossing his head impatiently, cut him off. The general had something he wanted to get on the record. "In the accomplishment of the national task that has been bestowed on me," intoned De Gaulle, "I was re-elected President on December 19, 1965, for seven years by the French people. I have the duty and the intention of completing this mandate until the end." To make certain that the French people heard clearly, De Gaulle instructed Information...