2 quotes by Maurice Couve de Murville (1907-1999), (Military)

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Maurice Couve de Murville

Our policy is not along the same lines as the policy of the United States. It is not because we want it to be different. It is because our thinking is different.

Maurice Couve de Murville

Our interests are not the same as yours [the United States] because we are here and you are on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Maurice Couve de Murville

Born: January 24, 1907
Died: December 24, 1999
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Profession: Military, Diplomat, Civil Servant, Politician

Biography

Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville was a French diplomat and politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1958 to 1968 and Prime Minister from 1968 to 1969 under the presidency of General de Gaulle. As foreign minister He played the leading role in the critical Franco-German treaty of cooperation in 1963, He laid the foundation for the Paris-Bonn axis that was central in building a united Europe.

MAURICE COUVE DE MURVILLE

(Jacques-Maurice Couve de Murville)