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Expansive French. Even the French, whose intransigence has been a leading obstacle to monetary reform, seem less likely to give trouble this year. With the country expected to pursue a more expansionist domestic economic policy now that doctrinaire former Premier Michel Debré has replaced Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as Charles de Gaulle's Economics and Finance Minister, the French will presumably run a smaller trade surplus. If so, France will have fewer dollars to trade for U.S. gold-and should be more inclined to reach an accommodation with the rest of the West...
...head of a vastly expanded Ministry of Finance and Economics, was fiery Michel Debré, 54, lawyer and journalist who was mainly responsible for the Fifth Republic's constitution and was De Gaulle's first Premier, from 1959 to 1962. Debré won the unenviable nickname of Père Colère (Old Man Fury) for his ferocious attacks on the Fourth Republic; he earned still more bitter criticism by advocating a hard line on Algeria, and resigned after the ceasefire. Since then, however, he has staged a comeback, in both influence and popularity. As a Deputy...
...French Cabinet is debating whether it should impose firmer controls on the French economy. Influential former Premier Michel Debré is pressing for more controls; Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing argue for more free enterprise. Though the Gaullists see no compelling political reasons at the moment for relaxing the present unpopular controls, most Frenchmen are confident that relief will come later this year. Reason: the next French presidential election must be held by December, and De Gaulle will want his voters to be contented and prospering...
...among French Premiers in that he was snatched from almost total political obscurity to become at least the nominal head of a government. Pompidou has never been elected to anything and had not even held a ministerial portfolio until De Gaulle named him Premier in 1962 to replace Michel Debré. But Pompidou, 52, is enormously able in his own right, and a man who has made a success of several careers...
...conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until 1962), former Premier Michel Debré, Prince Sadruddin Khan, Artur Rubinstein, the Charles Wrightsmans of Palm Beach and Porfirio Rubirosa...