Señor Presidente, mientras los tanques amenazaban Tiflis y la Presidencia francesa conducía a Europa al papel de conciliadora, un papel que no debería haber abandonado nunca, yo releía a un autor húngaro, Sándor Márai.
Mr President, while the tanks were threatening Tbilisi and the French Presidency was ushering Europe into the role of peacemaker, a role that it ought never to have abandoned, I re-read a Hungarian author, Sándor Márai.