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...resignation of Premier Michel Debré has been long rumored. Physically exhausted by his twelve-hour days as De Gaulle's errand boy, Debré has increasingly opposed, in private, De Gaulle's policy of centralizing authority in the presidency and his ignoring of the National Assembly. In the wake of De Gaulle's overwhelming victory in the national referendum approving the cease-fire agreement with the Algerian F.L.N., Debré argued for immediate parliamentary elections. His point: chances for a Gaullist sweep were now at their peak but would progressively decline in the months to come...
...Gaulle, however, was disappointed by the high number of abstentions in the referendum-24.6% of the electorate-and by the number of invalid ballots, many of which were deliberately mutilated to indicate qualified disapproval of De Gaulle's demand for more personal power. He snapped to Premier Debré: "This country is flabby. This referendum is flabby." When De Gaulle decided to postpone parliamentary elections, Debré's usefulness seemed at an end and, loyal as ever, he handed in his resignation...
...World War II, aided the general in producing his Memoirs, and has long been a close personal friend. A tall, hefty intellectual with bristling eyebrows and a heavy-featured face, Pompidou joined the investment bank of Rothschild Frères in 1954, swiftly rose to general director. Stolid where Debré was emotional, inclined to make broad judgments where Debré worried over details. Pompidou has been described as having "the same view of France and the same view of De Gaulle's destiny as De Gaulle himself." His appointment is widely interpreted as evidence that De Gaulle intends...
...France's ambassador to Moscow (1952-55); as ambassador to Bonn in 1956, he helped negotiate the Saar treaty by which France and Germany took the first big leap toward economic integration. In 1959, after De Gaulle had returned to power, Joxe became Secretary of State to Premier Debré, presided over far-reaching government reforms. According to friends, Joxe was disappointed that he had not become De Gaulle's Foreign Minister, but he has performed so brilliantly in the Algerian negotiations that last week Frenchmen were already discussing him as a possible Premier...
...blazing its usual exclusive sidetracks all over the map. In Paris the huntsmen-Editor-in-Chief Hearst, National Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine-aimed for President de Gaulle, but missed (he never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely. Before cabling this wisdom to the U.S., Debré's visitors promised to send him a copy of their story...