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Report from Paris by Our Paris Bureau Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 18, Number 5, February 1, 1991 Report from Paris by Our Paris Bureau Who will save France's honor? Palestine,the Persian Gulf and Leba­ Madness seemed to grip both the Senate and National Assembly, non, the Pe�ian Gulf and the Baltic but through the din, quiet voices of sanity spoke. countries .. .. "In the eyes of history,the depu­ ties who today were able to say 'no,' or abstained, will have the same place as those who refused to vote full gov­ ernmental powers to Marshal Petain ' Weapons will speak," an­ programmed applause, delivered for on July 10, t940." nounced President Fran�ois Mitter­ the most part,by the political leaders On Jan.1 15, Le Figaro ran an rand prophetically in a short speech to of groups more preooccupied with "Open Letter to My Deputy " from for­ the nation just hours before the bomb­ keeping all their members in line than mer DefenSe Minister Andre Gi­ ing of Baghdad began on Jan. 16-17. to give freereign to individual expres­ raud-alas! too late. "We undertook everything that was sion ....Is there no place for a dia­ "How have we come to this possible to do,but, unfortunately, not logue,even harsh,when it is a matter pass?... In a few hours,and without one word,not one sign came fromIraq of authorizing the Executive to push allowing the neighbors of Kuwait to that allowed us to hope that peace was the button?" express thew feeHngs,a position was at the end of the road," he intoned. Going the Americans one better, set,down tOi the nearest comma,and "Our independence, our security de­ Socialist Party head Pierre Mauroy since then considered immovable,be manded that price.To protect law is suspended the 12 Socialists who voted it at the price of a merciless war.. to protect our country: Let not the law against their President. "Along the way, Syria's President of the strongest govern the world,be­ Meantime, while France's mis­ was able to eoc.tend his grasp over Leb­ cause one day or other, it will strike sion was clearly definedby Mitterrand anon,all the while appearing among us at home." to "liberate Kuwait," but not to partic­ the number of our allies .... In lock-step with the U.S. Con­ ipate in any manner in an attack "For the' conflict will not, of ne­ gress, France's National Assembly against Iraq,French troops have been cessity,be medium- to short-term,lo­ voted support for George Bush's placed under U. S. operational con­ calized,or above all,characterized by "New World Order,that will last 100 trol,for the duration.Not one signifi­ enemy losses and followed by the kind years." (Can France have forgotten cant voice has been raised against this of rapid appeasement that some peo­ the Thousand-Year Reich?) The late breach of what was heretofore a sacro­ ple are writing about. All wars have President Gen. Charles de Gaulle, sanct principle of total independence appeared britf,even fresh and joyful who, on all essential issues, sided on defense matters. before they start.. with the Third World against the An­ Voices of sanity have not been ut­ "Or is it a question . .like some glo-Americans,must have spun in his terly silent, even so. In the weekly say,to . .tlestroy the nuclear capa­ grave that night, when 523 deputies Nouvelle Solidarite, French Schiller bility of Iraq?I tell you again: This is voted for war against Iraq. Institute President Jacques Che­ a lie. This capability does not exist. The43 who hadthe courageto vote minade wrote: Only two coUntries in the region pos­ against war madness included: 26 "Let's be plain: Fran�ois Mitter­ sess, or ard in the process of pos­ Communists; 7 Socialists,of whom 5 rand,after having defeated what Jean sessing, a nuclear capability: Israel are tied to Defense Minister Pierre Jaures and Pierre Mendes-France and Pakistan.. .. Chevenement; 4 Gaullists,including de struggled to build in our history, is "Finally i a serious problem is that Gaulle's nephew Jean; and 1 from Gis­ now destroying the heritage of Gener­ of our position with respect to the card's party, and Le Pen's lone deputy . al de Gaulle •...And hence, apart United States.To be a friend and ally In the Senate,former minister in de from certain who upheld the honor of does not imply allegiance.When the Gaulle's government Maurice Couve our National Assembly,the Socialists life of the lVnited States was threat­ de Murville,voted against the war. voted against the heritage of Jaures ened by Cuba,General de Gaulle was "What debate?" asked the eco­ and the Gaullists against the heritage the firstto sUpport Kennedy,but when nomic daily La Tribune, The paper of General de Gaulle.There was not it came to; Vietnam, he gave his characterizes the Parliament speeches a single person ... to establish the Phnom PeI).h address, which the as "stereotyped .. broken by pre- links between the Persian Gulf and Americans would do well to listen to." 48 International EIR February 1, 1991 © 1991 EIR News Service Inc. 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