Flying into London last week for a 36-hour visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French Premier Michel Debré had one clear purpose: to take a peek up Britain's sleeve and see what, if any, further undeclared cards the "flexible" British were planning to slip onto the table in the forthcoming East-West negotiations. In the process, Debré gave the rest of the Western alliance its first good look at him.
Little known to his countrymen, 47-year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroadand what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré...
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