"The behaviour of the Council and of the Committee has been clear-cut; they have been accomplices and cowards towards the aggressors; they have been equally coward and arrogant as regards the reasons of the victims.

A Parliament having a little self-respect should first of all judge what has been done, and then decide what to do.

If you really believe in what you say, you should have already proposed a vote of no-confidence to the Committee and should have attacked the Council, because the damage has for the most part been done. This Parliament, which is shaken every now and then by outbursts of good intentions for the future, but which systematically, thanks to our party and clan-like support, thanks to the decline in your ideals, which are accomplices of the powerful as always in the past, starting with the Social Democratic one, which has such a fine vice president in Jumblatt (I suggest to offer Jumblatt the temporary presidency if Brandt fails to recover). I wish to tell president Dankert that I feel a certain sympathy for him too, because the arrogance of this Council towards the Dutch presidency, the arrogance of Paris and Bonn towards yourselves, with the meeting of the day after tomorrow, is once again the arrogance of cowards, of powerful ones who behave in disrespect of all good principles. Let me also say that in the Quay

d'Orsay I no longer feel the spirit of Saint John Perse, of Alexis Leger de Saint Leger, who resigned after the Treaty of Münich to protest against Daladier. On the contrary, I can see a genetic continuity today between the Quay d'Orsay and the Elysée Palace and that French Parliament which, with the exception of a few dozen members, gave full powers to the government of Vichy.

You cannot continue to proclaim your neutrality while as Committee and as Council you decide an embargo against Yugoslavia. Shame on you! An embargo against Serbia might have made sense. Shame on you! You have created truces, deliberately and fraudulently giving the army which carried out the coup, and not the federal army, the time to occupy 50 percent of Croatia.

You are pursuing a mediation between partisans and Nazis. No doubt Lord Carrington belongs to Churchill's school, not the Churchill we all admire, but the Churchill who said "if I were Italian I would be a fascist" and handled matters concerning the League of Nations and concerning us in the same way in which you are handling this situation now.

I will not vote this resolution because it contains no condemnation of what has been done, but I hope that tomorrow the Socialist colleagues will not commit the infamy of withdrawing their signature from this text, even if it is hypocritical towards the past."