A call that could easily have unnoticed that the statue of liberty to be repatriated in France, a media swarm generated about the image and caused a word of words between a member of the European Parliament and the Pers Secretary of the White House.
Raphaël Glucksmann, one of French 79 members From the European Parliament, called on the Statue of Liberty of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi to his sender, with reference to President Trump’s faith to “Tyrannen” and the disintegration of scientific research institutions at a center -left convention on Sunday 16 March.
Although it was a passing remark that was made on a French political event, the remark was nevertheless on the podium of the White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday when a reporter asked her frontally whether the notorious gift would be returned.
So will the Statue of Liberty, which have been in the port of New York since October 1886, will be uprooted, dismantled and will be sent back to France on the Atlantic Ocean?
“Absolutely not,” Leavitt said. “My advice to that unnamed, low French politician would be to remind them that it is only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German now, so they must be grateful to our big country.”
In response to Leavitt’s Jabs, Glucksmann placed one Explanation on xIn English, clarifying his calls for the ‘symbolic’ repatriation of the statue.
“Nobody will come of course and steal the statue of liberty,” said Glucksmann. “The statue is yours, but what it embodies is of everyone. And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch here in Europe.”
The statue, a fixture of the New York Harbor Horizon, was covered As a gift to commemorate the centenary of the declaration of independence and the abolition of slavery the year before.
France has dug in public resources to construct the statue and Americans who are funds to build the fundamental pedestal through income art exhibitions and auctions and a direct call for donations by Joseph Pulitzer in his newspaper, New York World.
The pedestal funded by America is characterized by a bronze plaque from 1903 registered with Emma Lazarus’s 1883 sonnet ‘The New Colossus’, who introduces herself the’ powerful woman with a torch ‘:’ Give me tired, your poor, your fool, your accompanying masses to breathe …
However, Glucksmann argues that the United States has strayed from the values of the inscription of the statue.
“We count on you,” wrote Glucksmann.
