FRANCE: M. PIERRE MESSMER ARRIVES AND LEAVES ELYSEE PALACE AS PRESIDENT POMPIDO???JAPES HIM NEW PRIME MINISTER.

Record ID: 649318

  • Title: FRANCE: M. PIERRE MESSMER ARRIVES AND LEAVES ELYSEE PALACE AS PRESIDENT POMPIDO???JAPES HIM NEW PRIME MINISTER.
  • Date: 5th July 1972
  • Summary: 1. SV Flag TILT DOWN TO GV Elysee Palace 0.10 2. SV Reporters reach newspaper ZOOM INTO "CHABAN DELMAS" headline 0.16 3. GV M. Messmer arrives and enters building 0.29 4. GV Reporters outside palace ZOOM INTO SV window 0.38 5. SV M. Messmer comes out, surrounded by newsmen, into car and away (2 shots) 1.20 Initials BB/0230 DME/PN/BB/0210 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th July 1972 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA4J59L6D30W1TYO8DMXCK37MDW
  • Story Text: President Pompidou of France on Wednesday (5 July) named M. Pierre Messmer as the country's now Prime Minister. The president made his announcement four hours after M. Chatan-Delmas--Prime Minister for the past three years--presented his resignation, and that of his government, at the President's request.

    The new Prime Minister is 56, and a staunch Gaullist.

    Reports from Paris say M. Messmer will announce his government in a few days. Political pundits in the French capital say his appointment probably indicates that President Pompidou is likely to take a granter hand in running the country.

    M. Messmer's life has been marked by several spectacular episodes. As a Free French here he hi-jacked a ship--and later he made an adventurous escape after being captured by the Viet Minh in post-war Inde China.

    Under General de Gaulle, M. Messmer served nine years as France's Defence Minister. His greatest achievement was in winning the confidence of army generals at the same time as President de Gaulle was granting independence to Algeria.
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