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What's Up? Premier Michel Debré was the first in Paris to learn that the rebellion was on. Calling the delegate general to Algeria, Jean Morin, to check on rumors of impending trouble, Debre snapped, "What's up?" Over his bedroom telephone. Morin answered: "I'm not free. These gentlemen are in my room. I can't say any more except that we're well." Debre at once aroused De Gaulle, who had spent the evening at the thea ter with Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...Algerian conspirators well knew that they could not succeed unless they won mainland France, and Debré took to television in a near state of panic. "Aircraft are ready to drop or land paratroops at various airdromes to prepare a seizure of power,'' he warned. "As soon as the sirens sound, go there by foot or by car to convince the misled soldiers of their profound error." Later, in an evening that Parisians already refer to as La Nuit Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "France in Ferment" focuses on the nation's troubled youth, interviews Premier Michel Debré and Novelist Françoise Sagan...
...himself a pincushion for barbed French satire. The shafts fly at him from right, left and center. On radio, television and in Montmartre cellars, the traditional chansonniers gibe irreverently at De Gaulle's big-power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debré's fawning answer: "Any time you like...
Moody Regime. Since Gaullists worshipfully hail their leader as "mon general," Le Canard catches the mood of the regime with a whole series of possessive pronouns. Unpopular Premier Debré is referred to as "Mondebré" or "Monsatel-lite." When the French colonies disappointed De Gaulle in 1958 by choosing independence rather than autonomy within the French Community, a cartoon showed De Gaulle saying to Debré: "If you ask for independence, I'll explode...