Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

De Gaulle countered by cashing in
France's . . do~.lars for gold . And he
added insult to injury, Instead of
having this go~.cl put in a special
bin ' marked "fxar~ce" in the sub-
basement of :the `Federal Reserve
Bank in ' New Yoxk, as other more
trusting countries of the !'lr~ee
world" do, he had it shipped or
flown to Paris for temporaxy intexment
in the vaults of the Bank of
France . Also, he be,~an , to speak
irreverently abat~t 1~k~,e "gold ex-
change standard" udder which the .
dollar ' enjoyed the xole o~ xcse~'r~e
cuxrency, and ~o exalt the ~trai~i~
tional; c,~old s~andaxd, what all
"xight-thinking people" r~owad~ays
xeject as antediluviati~ ~t is
widely acknowledg+~d that ?~~
Gaglle's recent commen'~a en ~tHe
weakness of the dollar were ai sigi
nificant factor in the ~igr~~ 'of the
run on the dol~; t$at ~niiewed
haxd E~ti one' . Hr~eis ¬9¬ ~be t val~am
t~.on of the Ehg1i~$ ~~tinf~ .
Bu ~ ~ Gaaiie+~ at~ac~ea bri t~l~+
dollar are by na ~ieatia bis dn~;~i
sins -~--- in the eyes of U S . capi
,talism . In 196, h~'had the colossal
nexve to taut Latin America and
urge tie Latin American"nat ~ris to
seek independence from tlie~'`power to
the noxth . what de Gau11e meant,
~.~~x nowsR : ~~s 1a
. . ,~; .
:- .,WHAT IS DE GAULLE AFTER?
of caa~se,~,, ,wad that Latin t rica . ,
naticttas ~htaui~ ' rely ire ; ~ Fxancr~
His `~P©l~,c~r,. ; ' began to : pay c~~f this
year, ; . . when ; Peru o~;dered at~~it a do~-
2en Mirage V fie~hter~-bombers and
Argentina bought SrQ AMX-hanks .
Even :-..~mc~re '"ominous," . 'said ~on
gresaman 5elden of ~l abama $n a
House speech attacking,"de Gaulle's
d'angera .us for~i~n pali~ , "Dec . 7,
" .~~'le 1~fenCL1 govsxnment. .~7t'~~ not Only
takeh ~o, steps to out tiff exports aE
ma~bi~e~~, txucks, aid . sugar-px+o~ .. . :
ee~sitrq~ ~l~chir~ery tc~,~~astxo~ GtitDa,
it baa ~~so p~"av~de~ gexv~ex~o-ent
ba ltin+~ r credits to finapce
the~i~ '13 S~;f~3 .
~e~ .cl~drn Wkly sugg~s~s that Franca,
"lodits ~~o'~ unfavorabl,y on the mis- ;
chief" ~ .~"~stxo's , guerrillas cause .'
He 3a 'eimost equ~~ly angered by de-
Gaul~.'e+a' . fult~ihutions "against sq
caller! ~ ~~ .. ~, q~~~ression a~ia ta~st
f~ir~~rt~i . . :'Vict Nab, '~ +~nt~ hi a~ eail'
~px
tt~e ~eu~~~3~a~i+~t~ . ' o~ ~~u~~teast ~~ .
s3~i~++
Tie %+leati~y o~ ~~e beneficiaxi~es
f 6~ui~e+ s , "dangerous foreign
poi~~y" is ~pexhaps 'revealed most .
C~,eai~i~r'° in F`xa~ice's latest Middle
switch from aid ro .lsxael ~to
a~c~ent wooing off ; ,,the ~Arebs, The
first, big payoff, reported in the
New York Times, Dec 8, was the