extraordinary days. Who would have imagined that the Security Council would have been put to the t&St in the way that it has OK that it would have responded so well in the form of the three resolutions: resolutions 66U (1990)) 661 (1990) and 662 (1990). Confronted with the terrible events that have happened, my Government is delighted at the response to these amazing events , and we are particularly glad that the resolution we have juat adopted should have been adopted unanimously. I shall not dwell upon that, but I should like to make one or two other brief comments. I think that most of us, thinking about this crisis, have a terrible feeling that we are in a kind of time war&b that we are looking at one of those black and white films of the 1930s &en the dictators strutted on the world stage and seized the territories of others, claiming anschluse , or whatever it might be, as if the world was not really looking. Now, we are caught in this time warp and looking at events which, I think, even 10 days ago would have seemed to most people almost incredible. But we have responded well, and I think it very important that we watch each stage of *he crisis when we consider the events that are to follow. The firet is, of course, that we have been misled in a most lavish and dramatic fashion. We were told that Iraq had no intention of invading Kuwait; that was passed on privately and publicly to the world. The invasion then followed. We were told very recently that Iraq had every intention of withdrawing; a timetable submitted to the United Nations indicated that Iraqi forces would be withdrawing 
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