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3/0/1TD/13540-85 FRENCH REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S DEATH

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ASSASSINATION, JOHN KENNEDY

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Released pursuant to Executive Order 14176, DECLASS. OF RECORDS CONC. THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRES. JFK, SEN.

RFK, AND THE REV. DR. MLK, JR.

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FRENCH REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S DEATH

FR Paris: Embassy

TO Rome: Foreign Ministry

Msg NI: 1889

23 Nov 63

Signed BROSIO.

The death of President KENNEDY has made an enormous impression

in France and aroused an emotion (8M]. Government circles, beginning

with DE GAULLE, immediately forgetting [4G] differences with the

United States,

are unanimous in exalting the image of the deceased

President.

At the same time concern is not being concealed over the

internal evolution of the United States, where political differences

and the race conflict run the risk of being intensified.

On the international level, it is believed in Paris that the

West has lost a leader of major prestige and force and that this will

not fail to have repercussions on East-West relations.

JOHNSON is considered an obscure figure and a man, despite his

(B val political) experience, of minor caliber, with the consequences

of depriving the United States for [5G] a year, (B val that is),

until the (B val next) elections, of any effective political direction.

With the approach of the presidential elections the first signs

were already (B val noted) of hesitation and indecision which

diminished the capability for decision by the United States, and

the death of President KENNEDY risks paralyzing [7G] Washington

with unforeseeable consequences on both the domestic and the

international levels.

Italian

3/0/ITD/13540-63

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Released pursuant to

Executive Order 14176, DECLASS. OF RECORDS CONC. THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRES. JFK,

SEN.

RFK, AND THE REV. DR. MLK, JR.

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3/0/ITD/I3540-63

All agree, then, in [11G/M], over and above the differences,

that Europe has lost [51G/M] (B val the West) one of its best

leaders.

Communicated to ITALNATO and, by pouch, to the London embassy.

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CN ITDB 50101

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Released pursuant to Executive Order 14176, DECLASS. OF RECORDS CONC. THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRES. JFK, SEN.

REK, AND THE REV. DR. MIK, JR.

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