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Title items-in-[] - International Conference on [Vietnam] - lists of delegates, UN staff, French officials (file of Ms. Kate Newell - Secretary-General's secretary)

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Container s-0901-0004: Vietnam and Indo- 1972-1981

Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit Official list:

Foreign Minister THAN VAN LAM

Ambassador PHAM DANG LAM

Mr. NGUYEN XUAN PHONG

Ambassador PHAN VAN THINK

Minister Counselor NGUYEN PHU"C?NG THIEP

Minister Counselor NGUYEN TRIEU DAN

Counselor TRAN VAN DON

Adviser to the Delegation (does not figure on official list)

Former Foreign Minister TRAN CHANH THANH / i&ginn uf (Emin&u tu tire ;Hmf.ed ^ ^Icrmuttenfr ftu (Sanaim uuprr.s' d^ SCnKuttjs'

The Canadian Delegation to the International Conference on Viet Nam

The Honourable Mitchell Sharp, Secretary of State for External Affairs Mr. R. E. Collins, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, Alternate and Deputy Head of Delegation Mr. R. D. Jackson Deputy Alternate Head Brigadier General R.G. Christie Senior Military Adviser Mr. G.L. Hearn Minister, Permanent Mission of Canada to the Mr. R. V. Gorham Adviser to the Secretary of State for External Affairs Mr. D. Molgat Senior Political Adviser Mr. R. Gilbert Counsellor, Canadian Embassy, Mr. A.W. Sullivan Legal Adviser Mr. E.A. Skrabec Executive Secretary to the Delegation Mr. C.J. Dagg First Secretary, Canadian Delegation, ICCS, Saigon Lt. Colonel P. Ranger Defence Relations Adviser Mr. J. Lajoie Legal Adviser and Deputy Secretary to the Delegation

The Honourable Mitchell Sharp will be staying at the Bristol Hotel and all other members of the Delegation will be accommodated at the Hotel Prince des Galles. The Messmer Cabinet

July 6,1972

AMBASSADE DE Service de Presse et d'Information 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021 THE MESSMER CABINET

JULY 6, 1972

Premier

Ministers

Minister of State for National Defense Michel Debre

Minister of State for Social Affairs

Minister of Justice Rene Pleven

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Minister of the Interior

Minister of the Economy and Finance Valery Giscard d'Estaing

Minister of National Education Joseph Fontanet

Minister of Equipment, Housing and Regional Development

Minister of Cultural Affairs Jacques Duhamel

Minister Delegate to the Premier for Relations with Parliament

Minister Delegate to the Premier for the Protection of Nature and the Environment

Minister Delegate to the Minister of Andre Bettencourt Foreign Affairs

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development -2-

Minister of Industrial and Scientific Jean Charbonnel Development

Minister of Public Health

Minister of Transportation

Minister of the Post Office and Hubert Germain Telecommunications

Minister of Trade and Crafts

Minister of War Veterans Andre Bord

Secretaries of State to the Premier

for Civil Service and Information Philippe Malaud

for Youth, Sports and Leisure

Government Spokesman Jean-Philippe Lecat

for the Overseas Departments Xavier Deniau and Territories to the Minister of State for Social Affairs Christian Poncelet

to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Pierre Billecocq charge of Cooperation

to the Minister of the Economy and Finance, in charge of the Budget

to the Minister of Equipment, Housing and Regional Development

to the Minister of Agriculture and Bernard Pons Rural Development

to the Minister of Public Health, in Marie-Madeleine Dienesch charge of Social Action and Rehabilitation -3-

Pierre Messmer - Premier. Mr. Messmer was born in Vincennes on March 20, 1916. Ke is a Doctor of Law, holds a diploma from the Ecole des Langues Orientales and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer. In 1940 he joined the Free French Forces and fought in the African, Italian, French and German campaigns. In 1945 he took command of the French Mission in Calcutta, parachuted into Tonkin and was captured by the Vietminh; he escaped two months later and was demobilized in January 1946. From 1947 to 1948 he directed the staff of the French High Commissioner in Indochina. From 1950 to 1960 Pierre Messmer held several senior posts in what were then French territories in West and Equatorial Africa. He was successively Governor of , Governor of the , then High Commissioner of the Cameroon, of and of . Mr. Messmer was Minister of the Armed Forces from February 5, 1960 until June 22, 1969. A member of the UDR*party, he was twice elected Deputy from the Department. In 1971 he was elected Mayor of Sarrebourg. He is president of the UDR Federal Committee for Moselle and president of the UDR study group for regional reform. He was also president of the "Presence et Action du Gaullisme" association. On February 25, 1971 Mr. Messmer was named Minister of State for the Overseas Departments and Territories in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet. He retained this post until his appointment as Premier on July 5, 1972.

Michel Debre - Minister of State for National Defense. Born in Paris on January 15, 1912, Michel Debre is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science. In 1934 he became a member of the Council of State. During World War II, after being taken prisoner by the Germans in May 1940, he escaped and later joined the Resistance. In 1945 he joined the staff of General de Gaulle, at that time head of the Provisional Government, and helped draft plans for administrative reform and for creating the National School of Administration. In 1947 he was named Secretary General for German and Austrian Affairs in the Foreign Affairs Ministry. A Senator from 1948 to 1958, he also sat in the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and in the European Parliamentary Assembly and has been a substitute member of the Council of. Europe Consultative Assembly. In General de Gaulle's Cabinet,formed in June 1958, he was Minister of Justice and helped draft the reform of the judiciary and the text of the new Constitution. He was also one of the founders of the UKR. On January 8, 1959 he was appointed Premier and

The following abbreviations are used in this document: MRP - Popular Republican Movement; RI - ; RPF - Rally of the ; UDR - Union for the Defense of the Republic; UNR-UDT - Union for the New Republic-Democratic Workers Union; UD-Fifth Republic - Democratic Union for the Fifth Republic: PDM - Progress and Modern Democracy -4- held that post until April 1962. He was elected Deputy from the Overseas Department of Reunion in 1963 on the UNR ticket and retained his seat in the 1967 and 1968 legislative elections. Recalled to the Pompidou Cabinet in January 1966, Michel Debre was named Minister of the Economy and Finance and held that post until his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs on May 31, 1968. He retained that portfolio in the Couve de Murville Cabinet which was named on July 12, 1968. Mr. Debre has published various works on political issues. He was appointed Minister of State for National Defense in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969.

Edgar Faure - Minister of State for Social Affairs, Mr. Faure was born on August 18, 1908 in Beziers in the Herault Department. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales and holds a doctorate in law. A lawyer and financial expert, he worked with the French Committee of National Liberation in during the war. From 1946 to 1958 he represented the Department in the National Assembly and was Vice President of the High Court of Justice. He was appointed Secretary of State for Finance in 1949, Minister of the Budget in 1950 and Minister of Justice in 1951. From January 20 to February 29, 1952 he was Premier and Minister of Finance. From 1954 to 1955 he was Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning, and he was then Minister of Foreign Affairs for several months. From 1955 to 1956 he was again Premier. In May 1958 he was Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning in the last cabinet of the Fourth Republic. Mr. Faure was a Senator from the Jura Department from 1959 to January 1966 (elected on the Democratic Left ticket). In 1961 he became an "agrege" in law and was named Professor of Law at the University of . He fulfilled several important missions for the government, including a trip to China in 1963 that resulted in the resumption of diplomatic relations between France and China. On January 8, 1966 he was named Minister of Agriculture and held that post until July 10, 1968. In the June 1968 elections he was elected Deputy from the Department on the UDR ticket. Mr. Faure has published a novel and several political and historical works. He was Minister of Education in the Couve de Murville Cabinet from July 12, 1968 to June 20, 1969. He was re-elected Deputy from the Doubs Department in a by-election in October 1969.

Rene Pleven - Minister of Justice, Born on April 15, 1901 in Rennes, Brittany, Rene Pleven is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science. He was among the first to join General de Gaulle in 1940 and was responsible for matters relating to French Equatorial Africa. As Commissioner for the colonies in the French National Liberation Committee, he organized and chaired the Brazzaville Conference in 1944. In General de Gaulle's first Cabinet he was Minister for the colonies (September 1944), then Minister of Finances (November 1944) and in the second Cabinet was Minister of National Education (November 1945). He was a member of the first -5-

Constituent Assembly in 1945, was elected a Deputy from the Cotes-du-Nord in 1946 and has been re-elected ever since. He was Minister of Defense in the Bidault and Queuille Cabinets (1949-1950) and twice Premier (July 1950-February 1951 and August 1951-January 1952). it was while he was Premier that the Coal and Steel Treaty was ratified. He then became Minister of Defense in the Pinay, Mayer and Laniel governments (March 1952-June 1954). In 1958 he was Foreign Minister in the Pflimlin Cabinet. Since 1959 he has been a member of the European Parliamentary Assembly and chairman of that body's liberal group as well as vice chairman of the French Association for the Atlantic Community. He founded the Democratic Center group in the National Assembly and is presently affiliated with the Progress and Modern Democracy group. He was a member of the National Town and Country Planning Committee and chairman of the Committee for the Regional Economic Development of Brittany. Mr. Pleven manages the newspaper Petit ~Bleu des Cotes du Nord and has written a book on the future of Brittany. He was appointed Minister of Justice on June 22, 1969 in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet.

Maurice Schumann - Minister of Foreign Affairs. Born in Paris on April 10, 1911, Maurice Schumann earned a liberal arts degree and started his career in journalism. He was assistant foreign editor for the Havas news agency and after the war became political editor of the newspaper I'Aube. When World War II broke out, he was taken prisoner but managed to escape and immediately joined General de Gaulle in London. From 1940 to 1944 he broadcast to occupied France every evening as a spokesman for Fighting France. Immediately after the Liberation, he was appointed national chairman of the MRP. He was a delegate to the Consultative Assembly and a Deputy from the Nord Department to the two Constituent Assemblies (1945-46) and then to the National Assembly from 1946 on. He was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 1962 to 1967. From August 1951 to June 1954 he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under the five successive Cabinets of Rene Pleven, Edgar Faure, , Rene Mayer and . He was most recently re-elected Deputy on the UDR ticket in June 1968. He has been a delegate to the European Parliamentary Assembly and to the UN General Assembly. He was named Minister of State for Scientific Research, Atomic and Space Affairs on April 7, 1967 in the Pompidou Cabinet and then became Minister of State for Social Affairs on May 31, 1968 and continued to hold that post in the Couve de Murville Cabinet. He has published various books on politics and history. He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969.

Raymond Marcellin - Minister of the Interior. Mr. Marcellin was born in Sezanne in the Marne Department on August 19, 1914. He is a Doctor of Law and a member of the Paris Bar. During the war he was taken prisoner and escaped. He has been a Deputy from the Department >ara? ^^*^^3¥^v'~!!™ T^ .i

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since 1946, most recently elected on the UDR-RI ticket in June 1968. Mr. Marcellin was Under Secretary of State of the Interior (Queuille Cabinet) in 1948-49, then of Industry and Commerce in the Bidault Cabinet in 1949-50, Secretary of State to the Presidency of the Council and, in the Pinay Cabinet (1952), Secretary of State for Information. In 1951 he became assistant secretary general of the National Center for Independence and Peasants. In 1957-58 he held the post of Secretary of State for Civil Service and Administrative Reform. In May 1962 he was named Minister of Public Health and Population in the Pompidou Cabinet and held that post until January 1966 when he was appointed Minister of Industry. On April 7, 1967 he was given the portfolio of Minister Delegate to the Premier for Economic Planning and Town and Country Planning, then was named Minister of the Interior on May 31, 1968, retaining that post in the Couve de Murville Cabinet and the Chaban- Delmas Cabinet.

Valery Giscard d^staing - Minister of the Economy and Finance. Mr. Giscard d'Estaing v;as born on February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, where his father was the financial assistant to the French High Commissioner in Germany. He enlisted at the age of 18 and took part in the French and German campaigns. After graduating from the Ecole Polytechnique and the National School of Administration, he became a Finance Inspector in 1952. In August 1955 he was appointed deputy director of the staff of the President of the Council, Edgar Faure. He was a member of the French delegation to the llth, 12th and 13th UN General Assemblies. In January 1956 he was elected Deputy on the Independent ticket from the Puy-de- Dome Department and was constantly re-elected in 1958, 1962, 1967 and 1968. In January 1959 he was named Secretary of State for the Budget in the Debre Cabinet, working alongside Antoine Pinay first and then Wilfrid Baumgartner. Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs in January 1962, he was again given this post in the Pompidou Cabinet (April 1962-January 1966). In June 1966 he became president of the National Federation of Independent Republicans. In 1967 he was elected chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Finances, the Economy and Planning. Mr. Giscard d'Estaing is the co-founder of the Society for Freedom of the Press and Information. He was appointed Minister of the Economy and Finance in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969.

Joseph Fontanet - Minister of National Education. Born on February 9, 1921 in Frontenex (Savoie), Joseph Fontanet is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the School of Advanced Business Studies. Active in the Christian Student Youth group in 1937, he was taken prisoner during the war and escaped. He reached Spain, then Africa and in 1944 took part in the Provence landing. In 1950 he became director of the staff of the Secretary of State for Public Health and Population and at the same time was assistant secretary general of the MRP. In 1956 he was elected MRP -7-

Deputy from the Savoie. In January 1959 Mr. Fontanet became Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce and, in the same year, for Domestic Trade in the Debre Cabinet. He was then Minister of Public Health and Population, first in the Debre Cabinet (August 1961) and then again in the Pompidou Cabinet (April 1962), but he resigned a month later. Re-elected MRP Deputy from the Savoie in 1962, he became secretary general of the MRP in 1963 and remained so until 1968. He was re-elected Deputy in 1967 and 1968 and joined the PDM party in the National Assembly. Joseph Fontanet was also a member of the High Committee for the Study of and Information on Alcoholism and the National Assembly Committee on Cultural, Family and Social Affairs. He was appointed Minister of Labor, Employment and Population in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969. He held that post until his present appointment as Minister of National Education.

Olivier Guichard - Minister of Equipment^ Housing and Regional Development. Born in Nerac in the Gironde Department on July 27, 1920, Olivier Guichard earned degrees in law and liberal arts and is a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science. He was a volunteer during World War II and after the war joined the ranks of the RPF, heading the Paris office of General de Gaulle. From 1955 to 1958 he directed the Press Service of the Atomic Energy Commission. When General de Gaulle was named Premier in June 1958, Olivier Guichard was made deputy director of his staff. In June 1960 he was named General Delegate to the Common Organization of the Saharan Regions (OCRS), an organ in charge of the economic and social development of the Saharan territories. In February 1963 he was made Delegate to the Office for Territorial Development and Regional Action and in that post drew up a national development policy. In March 1967 he was elected Deputy from the Loire-Atlantique Department on the UD-Fifth Republic ticket, and he was re-elected on the UDR ticket in the June 1968 elections. On April 7, 1967 he entered the Pompidou Cabinet as Minister of Industry. He became Minister Delegate to the Premier for Economic Planning and Town and Country Planning in May 1968 and retained that portfolio in the Couve de Murville Cabinet. He became Minister of National Education in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969 and held that post until his appointment as Minister of Equipment, Housing and Regional Development.

Jacques Duhamel - Minister of Cultural Affairs. Born on September 24, 1924 in Paris, Jacques Duhamel has degrees in law and sociology and is a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science and the National School of Administration. In 1947 he joined the Council of State. In 1950 he was named technical adviser to the staff of Edgar Faure, first Minister of the Budget (1950), then Minister of Justice (1951). He became director of Mr. Faure's staff when the latter became President of the Council in 1952 and deputy director in 1953-54 when Mr. Faure was Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs. In 1955 he was named Deputy -8-

Commissioner General for Productivity. Promoted to "maitre des requei-«j«^fl at the Council of State, he again directed Mr. Faure's staff when civ V*»^^ was head of government in 1955 and later was a technical adviser oa v«*f ^ staff when Mr. Faure was Minister of Finance (1958). In I960 he was named director general of the National Foreign Trade Center. In 196? •« Duhamel was elected Deputy from the Jura. He was re-elected Deputy *%~*^A 1967 and 1968 and, with , he formed the Democratic Center He joined the National Assembly PDM group and became its president. Tbs author of numerous articles in French and foreign newspapers, in 1968 Mr. Duhamel became vice president of the group for the study of inforasi*

Robert Boulin - Minister Delegate to the Premier for with Parliament. Mr. Boulin was born on July 20, 1920 at Villandraut itj ' the Gironde Department. He holds a degree in law and is a member of tht? - Bar. Mr. Boulin participated actively in the Resistance and played an .:; important role as a member of the RPF after the war. A Deputy from the Gironde Department from 1958 to 1961, he was re-elected in 1962, 1967 (on the UD-Fifth Republic ticket) and in June 1968 (UDR ticket). He was Secretary of State for Repatriates from August 28, 1961 until September ,. 10, 1962; in this capacity he dealt with all the problems concerning th* many repatriates from North Africa. In September 1962 he was named Secretary of State for the Budget and then, in January 1966, Secretary " of State to the Minister of the Economy and Finance. On May 31, 1968 :; he was named Minister of the Civil Service. He became Minister of Agriculture in the Couve de Murville Cabinet on July 12, 1968 and Minister of Health and Social Security in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969. He held that position until his present appointment.

Robert Poujade - Minister Delegate to the Premier for the Protection of Nature and the Environment. Born in Moulins on May 6, 192S, Robert Poujade is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure and an "agrege" of letters. He taught at the Dijon lycee from 1954 to 1956 befere being appointed instructor at Dijon University. While studying in Paris, Mr. Poujade was secretary general of the Association of RPF Students anc£ in Dijon he founded the group of Social Republicans of the Cote-d'Or Department and the local UNR federation and was its first departmental secretary in 1958. In 1964 he became a member of the Economic and Social Council and in 1965 of the Economic Development Committee for the Bourgogne region. Mr. Poujade was a member of the General Council of Cote-d'Or and of the Dijon Municipal Council. In 1967 he was elected Deputy from the Cote-d'Or Department on the UNR ticket and was re-elected -9-

±n 1968. Mr. Poujade has been a member of the UDR Central Committee since 1962. He was that party's secretary general from January 1968 until his appointment as Minister Delegate to the Premier for the Protection of Nature and the Environment on January 7, 1971 in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet.

Andre Bettencourt - Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Born on April 21, 1919 in Saint-Maurice d'Etelan in the Seine-Maritime Department, Mr. Bettencourt is a journalist and manager of the Oreal Corporation. He played an active role in the Resistance. Deputy from the Seine-Maritime Department since 1951— most recently elected in June 1968 on the UDR-RI ticket—he was appointed Secretary of State for Information in 1954 (Mendes-France Cabinet). In 1957 he created a series of local weekly newspapers and is still on the board of directors of the newspaper La France Agricole. In 1962 he was elected vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the National Assembly and also vice chairman of the Independent Republicans parliamentary group. Mr. Bettencourt was a member of the Fifth Plan's study committee in charge of water conservation and pollution problems. In 1967 he was a member of the French delegation to the UN General Assembly. His cabinet posts have included Secretary of State for Transportation and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Pompidou Cabinet (1966-67) . He was named Minister of the Post Office and Tele- communications on May 31, 1968 and Minister of Industry in the Couve de Murville Cabinet on July 12, 1968. He was appointed Minister Delegate to the Premier for the Plan and Town and Country Planning in the Chaban- Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969. He held that post until his present appointment.

Jacques Chirac - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Born in Paris on November 29, 1932, Jacques Chirac is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and he also studied at the National School of Administration. He entered the Cour des Comptes in 1959, then worked at the General Secretariat for Algerian Affairs from September 1959 to April 1960. He was assigned to Premier 's staff in December 1962 where he dealt with problems of investments, equipment and tourism. He was named Secretary of State to the Minister of Social Affairs for Employment on April 7, 1967. After having been elected Deputy from the Correze Department (on the UD-Fifth Republic ticket) in the 1967 elections, he was re-elected in June 1968. He was appointed Secretary of State for the Economy and Finance on May 31, 1968 and he retained that post in the Couve de Murville Cabinet (July 12, 1968 to June 20, 1969) and in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet until his appointment as Minister Delegate to the Premier for Relations with Parliament on January 7, 1971. He was named Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on July 6, 1972. -10-

Jean Gharbonnel - Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development, Born on April 22, 1927 in La Fere in the Aisne Department Mr. Charbonnel is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure, the National School of Administration and he holds a doctorate in history. A member of the Cour des Comptes since 195.6, he held successive posts on the personal staffs of the Ministers of Public Health and of Justice from July 1959 to April 1962. He was elected Deputy from the Correze Department in November 1962 and was re-elected in June 1968 on the UDR ticket. He has been a member of the General Council of that Department since 1964. He became Mayor of Brive in 1966. He was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Cooperation from 1966 to 1967. He has been Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Finance, General Economy and the Plan since January 1971.

Jean Foyer - Minister of Public Health. Mr. Foyer was born on April 27, 1921 in Contigne in the Maine-et-Loire Department. An "agrege" in law and a graduate of the Academy of International Law in The Hague, he was a professor of law at the University of Lille and is a member of the Paris Bar. Mr. Foyer was a member of the working committee that met in 1958 to draft the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. He was elected Deputy from the Maine-et-Loire Department in 1959 and 1962. In. 1960 he was appointed Secretary of State for Cooperation and in 1961 became Minister of Cooperation. He was Minister of Justice in the Pompidou Cabinet from April to December 1962 and from January 1966 to April 1967. Elected Deputy from Maine-et-Loire in 1967, he was re-elected in June 1968 on the UDR ticket. Since 1968 he has been president of the National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Law, Legislation and General Administration, and professor at the Faculty of Law of Nanterre.

Robert Galley - Minister of Transportation. Robert Galley was born on January 11, 1921 in Paris. He is an engineer with degrees from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures and the Ecole Rationale Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs. He joined the Atomic Energy Commission in 1955 and was in charge of constructing the Marcoule nuclear installation, that of La Hague and the Pierrelatte isotopic separation plant, and was head of the isotopic separation plant department until 1967. From 1966 to 1968 he was delegate to the Premier for Data Processing and chairman of the permanent committee on electronics in the General Planning Commissariat and, in August 1967, he became chairman of the board of governors of the Research Institute on Data Processing and Automation. From May 31 to July 10, 1968 he was Minister of Equipment and Housing. He was elected Deputy on the UDR ticket from the Aube Department in the ^ June 1968 legislative elections. On July 12 of that year he was appoints Minister Delegate to the Premier for Scientific Research, Atomic and Space Affairs in the Couve de Murville Cabinet. He was appointed Minister -11- of the Post Office and Telecommunications in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969. He held that post until his present appointment as Minister of Transportation.

Hubert Germain - Minister of the Post Office and Telecommunications. Mr. Germain was born in Paris on August 6, 1920. As a member of the Free French Forces in 1940, he took part in the campaigns in Eritrea, Libya, Tunisia, Italy and France. In 1946 he was on the staff of General Koenig, French Commander in Germany. From February 1960 to October 1962 he was on the staff of Mr. Messmer, then Minister of the Armed Forces, and he was one of his technical advisers from April 1967 until June 1968. A Deputy from Paris from 1962 to 1967, Mr. Germain was re-elected in 1968 on the UDR ticket. He has been president of the parliamentary organization "Presence et Action du Gaullisme" since July 1969 and has been vice- president of the UDR group in the National Assembly since April 1971. He is a member of the Committee for Finance, General Economy and Planning and is a special rapporteur for the weapons budget.

Yvon Bourges - Minister of Trade and Crafts. Yvon Bourges was born in Pau (Pyrenees-Atlantiques Department) on June 29, 1921. He holds £ degree in law and a diploma for advanced studies in public law. He began his career in Departmental administration in 1942 and in March 1957 he was appointed Subprefect of Erstein (Bas-Rhin Department). He was then attached to the Ministry of France Overseas and served in various posts in French Equatorial Africa and French West Africa. In 1956 Mr. Bourges was appointed Governor of Upper Volta and in 1958 he became High Commissioner for French Equatorial Africa. He served as High Commissioner General in Brazzaville from 1959 to 1960 and from 1960 to 1961 as special delegate from the President of the Republic and of the Community to the Union of the Republics of Central Africa and of Gabon. Mr. Bourges then headed the personal staff of the Minister of the Interior, , from May 1961 to October 1962. He was elected a Deputy from the Ille-et-Vilaine Department in November 1962, then re-elected in March 1967 on the UNR-UDT ticket and again in June 1968 on the UDR ticket. In 1964 he was a member of the European Parliament. On February 23, 1965 he entered the Pompidou Cabinet as Secretary of State to the Premier for Scientific Research, Atomic and Space Affairs; then, on January 8, 1966 he became Secretary of State to the Premier for Information. Appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of Cooperation in April 1967, he held that position in the Couve de Murville and Chaban-Delmas Cabinets until his present appointment. -12-

Andre Bord - Minister of War Veterans. Born in on November 30, 1922, Andre Bord worked actively in the Resistance during the war. Captured by the Germans, he escaped and in 1944 was sentenced to death in absentia by a German court martial in Limoges. He participated in the liberation of and in the German campaign. After the war he was active in the KPF. In November 1958 he was elected a UNR Deputy from the Bas-Rhin Department. He was re-elected in 1962, 1967 and 1968 (on the UDR ticket). He was assistant secretary general of the UNR-UDT group from 1963 to 1967. A French representative to the European Parliament from October 1961 to 1966, he was chairman of that body's European Democratic Union group in 1965. Andre Bord entered the Pompidou Cabinet on January 8, 1966 as Secretary of State for the Interior and retained that post in the Couve de Murville Cabinet and in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet until being named Minister of War Veterans in the Messmer Cabinet of July 6, 1972.

Philippe Malaud - Secretary of State to the Premier for Civil Service and Information. Mr.. Malaud, a career diplomat, was born in Paris on October 2, 1925. He holds a degree in law, a diploma of advanced studies in liberal arts and is a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science and the National School of Administration. He entered the diplomatic service in 1947. He was attache at the French Embassy in Warsaw in 1949, second secretary in Cairo in 1952, was sent on a mission to the United Nations General Secretariat in 1957 and assigned to the staff of Foreign Minister (1957-58). From 1958 to 1963 and again from 1966 to 1967 he was deputy head (1959), then head (1961), of the staff of Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. He was director of the staff of Andre Bettencourt when the latter was Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (April 1967-May 1968). In the June 1968 legislative elections, Mr. Malaud was elected a Deputy from the Saone-et-Loire Department on the UDR-RI ticket. In the Couve de Murville Cabinet, appointed July 12, 1968, he was Secretary of State to the Premier for Civil Service. He continued to hold that position in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet named on June 22, 1969.

Joseph Comiti - Secretary of State to the Premier for Youth, Sports and Leisure. Dr. Comiti, a surgeon by profession, was born on June 4, 1920 in Sotta, Corsica. He has been a member of the central committee and the executive bureau of the UDR and also secretary general of this party's Bouches-du-Rhone federation. In 1958 he was a Professor at the School of Medicine and in 1964 became president of the Bouches-du-Rhone Medical Association. In 1965 he founded the Club for the Economic and Social Planning for the Future of the Marseilles- -13-

Provence region. In 1966 and 1967 he was an expert for the Economic and Social Council. He was elected a Deputy on the UDR ticket from the Bouches-du-Rhone Department in the June 1968 elections. On July 12, 1968 he was named Secretary of State to the Premier for Youth and Sports in the Couve de Murville Cabinet and kept this position in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet.

Jean-Philippe Lecat - Secretary of State to the Premiers Government Spokesman. Born in Dijon on July 29, 1935, Jean-Philippe Lecat holds a degree in political science and a degree in law. He .graduated from the National School of Administration. In 1963 Mr. Lecat joined the Council of State. From 1966 to 1968 he was attached to the staff of the Premier, Georges Pompidou. He was elected UDR Deputy from the Cote-d'Or Department in 1968. He is assistant secretary general of the UDR in charge of cultural affairs and information. As a member of the National Assembly committee on laws, he reported to that body on two major bills: the higher education bill in 1971 and the regional reform bill in 1972. He became Secretary of State, Government Spokesman, in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on May 15, 1972.

Xavier Deniau - Secretary of State to the Premier for the Overseas Departments and Territories, Born on September 24, 1923 in Paris, Mr. Deniau is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer, the Paris School of Political Science and the Faculty of Law. He served in Indochina from 1944 to 1950, then was head of staff for the High Commissioner in the Cameroon from 1951 to 1953. In 1954 he became Director of the Office of Trusteeship Affairs and Diplomatic Counselor in the Cameroon and held this position until 1957. In this capacity, he was a member of the French delegation to the United Nations from 1955 to 1958. From 1958 to 1959 he was technical adviser, then political adviser, to the High Commissioner General in Dakar, Mr. Messmer. From 1960 to 1962 Mr. Deniau was a technical adviser at the Ministry of the- Armed Forces and member of the French delegation to NATO. He was named Councilor of State in July 1962. Mr. Deniau was elected Deputy from the Loiret Department in 1962 and 1967, and was re-elected in 1968 on the UDR ticket. He is a member of the "Presence et Action du Gaullisme" association. He was vice chairman of the National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee in 1968. Mr. Deniau was a member of the French delegation to the United Nations at the 23rd, 24th and 25th sessions of the General Assembly. -14-

Christian Poncelet - Secretary of State to the Minister- of State for Social Affairs. Mr. Poncelet was born in Blaise in the on March 24, 1928. He began his career in 1950 in the Post- al and Telecommunications Service and became a telecommunications supervisor in 1953. He was an active member of the CFTC labor union and was elected Deputy from the Department on the UNR-UDT ticket in 1962 and re-elected in 1967 and 1968. In 1956 he was secretary and in 1967 vice chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Production and Trade. He has been a member of the National Assembly's study committee on the problems of participation, profit-sharing and labor relations since 1969 and member of the study committee for a new social contract since 1970. Mr. Poncelet is a member of the Higher Council on Electricity and Gas. He has also been a General Councilor of the Vosges Department since 1963.

Pierre Billecoc