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September 11, 1948
Garry Davis Statement on "Leaving" France For U.N. Territory
PARIS-- It is not my wish or purpose to break any existing national laws. It is my
wish and purpose to seek an extension of law and order into the international region,
which is now a raw anarchy, so that, through a world government, world citizenship can be
legally recognized for all men. Therefore, I am seeking sanctuary in the only place in
France which is not French soil, the area temporarily ceded to the United Nations, the
Palais de Chaillot. I have no passport, and the only place I can go -- now that the French
have refused to extend my visa - is international territory, and the Palais is
international territory. The United Nations is in the half-world between a collection of
sovereign nations and a real international authority. I want it to take a stand, so that
others can have a chance to acquire international citizenship and open the way for a
federated world.
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