NEW FACES IN DE GAULLE'S CABINET

In addition to such political familiars as Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin and Antoine Pinay, Premier Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet includes these interesting new faces:

Foreign Minister: Maurice Couve de Murville, 51, lawyer, financial expert, career diplomat. Son of a judge in Reims, and a Protestant, Couve de Murville became Inspector of Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve de Murville assured his radio listeners that France would return to the U. N. "as soon as possible." Currently French Ambassador to West Germany, he was a surprise choice, was playing golf at Cologne when he got the word that a big job awaited him in Paris.

Justice Minister: Michel Debre, lawyer, Senator of France, longtime Gaullist and fire-breathing patriot. Hates the idea of European integration, was French delegate to the Strasbourg Assembly, where he blasted the plan for a European free market and the joint use of atomic power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debre is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debre originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest court, he will presumably be entrusted with De Gaulle's reform of the constitution.

Secretary of State: Andre Malraux, 56, novelist, art historian, one of France's most brilliant intellectuals. Malraux was a revolutionary in the 19205 and '303 (and relived it in his novels--Man's Fate, Man's Hope), but denounced Communism on the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, fought bravely in the resistance, became so disgusted by parliamentary paralysis after the war that he served six years as a De Gaulle lieutenant, has since concentrated on art and archaeology.

Minister of State: Louis Jacquinot, 59, an Independent (conservative), former Minister of the Navy. Angry critic of the parliamentary "gravediggers of our Empire," whom he blamed for the loss of Indo-China, Tunisia. Morocco, Jacquinot also charged that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were "in league" to rob France of North Africa. A longtime bachelor, he married a wealthy widow five years ago at the time of his unsuccessful bid to become President of France.

Secretary of State: Pierre Guillamat, 48, former administrative head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, and a stout nationalist who is best remembered by delegates to international conferences for his insistence that France--regardless of cost or efficiency--make her own atomic bombs.

Interior Minister: Emile Pelletier, 60, a talented member of the career administrators who really run France, no matter what governments fall or rise. Won the Croix de Guerre and the Medal of the Resistance in World War II. Has been for three years prefect (governor) of the Seine Department, which includes Paris, and is the top job among prefectures. Will have the responsibility, under De Gaulle, for internal order and security.

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