FRENCH MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR CONTINUED NUCLEAR TESTS
Paris, France (JFK+50) On November 7, 1963, Pierre Messmer*, Minister of Armies under President Charles DeGaulle, said to the National Assembly meeting here in Paris...
"These tests are necessary to perfect our nuclear arms and their vehicles."
The Minister is not bowing to criticism of his country's nuclear testing.
He added...
"We will pay no attention to" protests at home and abroad. Mr. Messmer considers the nuclear tests a "necessary guarantee for French independence and liberty."
*Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (1916-2007) was born in Vincennes, France & served in the French Foreign Legion, minister of armies 1960-1969 & prime minister 1972-1974.
SOURCE
"Defiant France Warns She'll Keep Up A-Tests," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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