Word: debre
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Gaulle's new constitution begins with words from the constitution of the old Fourth Republic: "France is a Republic, indivisible, secular, democratic and social." It continues with the echoing phrase, "of the people, by the people, for the people." Minister of Justice Michel Debré, who had a big hand in writing the new constitution, denies that De Gaulle opposes a democratic Parliament. Says he: "French democracy threatened to perish because Parliament was also the government, the administration, and even sought to administer justice. The role of a Parliament is not to govern. It is to vote laws...
...seriously tackled in years. Items: ¶ Minister of Construction Pierre Sudreau got two months to prepare a program to build rental housing, so that France will no longer be the only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister of State Guy Mollet was assigned to head a task force...
Justice Minister: Michel Debré, lawyer, Senator of France, longtime Gaullist and fire-breathing patriot. Hates the idea of European integration, was French delegate to the Strasbourg Assembly, where he blasted the plan for a European free market and the joint use of atomic power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe...