Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, proceeding to the Premier's study in the Hotel Matignon, Pinay stated his terms: unchallenged control in future over all of France's economic and financial affairs. Replied Debre stiffly: "There is no Pinay policy. There is only the policy of the government and the head of state...
...crisis bore the name of the man most closely identified with the one big success of the De Gaulle era-Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Hopefully, peace may one day crown De Gaulle's efforts in Algeria, history may yet regard De Gaulle's generosity to the restless states of French West Africa as high statesmanship, but the one here-and-now triumph of the regime has been economic. And that is the province of short, commonsensical Antoine Pinay, 68, onetime leader of the powerful right-wing Independents in France's National Assembly and one of the Fourth...
Plain-spoken Antoine Pinay, smalltown leather manufacturer who has made himself the living symbol of the Frenchman who carefully counts his change, has long been unhappy in his Cabinet job. He wanted to make quicker progress toward a settlement in Algeria; he deplored De Gaulle's disregard of his allies and his disdain for NATO. And Pinay made no attempt to disguise his personal dislike for Premier Michel Debre. On at least one occasion he so irked De Gaulle himself that the general accused Pinay of having forgotten "which republic...
...that, Pinay is by common consent De Gaulle's most effective minister. Executing plans drawn up by Economic Braintruster Jacques Rueff, he carried through-without the usual rapid and disastrous rise in prices-the devaluation that gave the franc a strength it had not enjoyed in international markets since 1936. Introducing economic liberalism into France's closed economy, he made the franc convertible, hacked away at government subsidies, even persuaded French business to abandon its traditional protectionism and go wholeheartedly into the Common Market. Heartened by the knowledge that Pinay was at the helm, wealthy Frenchmen repatriated massive...
Fortnight ago, Pinay took his objections to the public. Said he: "It is surprising enough that the present government should consider carrying out what are really socialist policies. But that I should be required to apply such a policy is altogether out of the question." And last week, before a showdown session with Debre, he said that he had no intention of going quietly: "If the government does not want me any more, it will have to issue a decree removing me from office...