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...French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debré the only holdout, Ministers of the Group of Ten agreed to persevere some more...
...campaign manager for De Gaulle's re-election last December, in which De Gaulle was forced into a humiliating runoff, and even then managed only 55% of the vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government's tough wages-and-price policy...
...time it also seemed that it would be a title without sequel. Turned out of Parliament by his home town of Tours, Debré got back into official Paris only when De Gaulle let him run for Deputy from the tiny, safe, Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Debre finally was given his comeback chance last month when De Gaulle bounced Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, his hand-picked and once favored architect of austerity. Debre got Giscard's job, expanded into a kind of superministry over much of the French Cabinet's domestic activities...
Modest though it was, the plan represented quite an unbending of the French economy by De Gaulle's austere standards for his Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping...
That puts Debré right where he wants to be, bidding against Pompidou to be De Gaulle's No. 1 collaborator. Few people in Paris think that he can unseat Pompidou as De Gaulle's choice for President chiefly because the acerbic, colorless Debré has proved himself virtually unelectable. What may emerge, Elysee theologians believe, is a kind of duumvirate, with the genial Pompidou as a winning President to succeed De Gaulle-and the dour Debré as tough, party-lining Premier...