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ILL-FEELING between Britain and France over the invasion of Iraq has plumbed new depths with the desecration of that most sacred of memorials, a war cemetery. The defilement of Commonwealth war graves in northern France coincided with a poll for The Times which found that 54 per cent of Britons no longer regarded France as a close ally because of its opposition to the war. Relations will be further rent by a second poll, in Le Monde, showing that only a third of the French felt that they were on the same side as the Americans and British, and that...

ILL-FEELING between Britain and France over the invasion of Iraq has plumbed new depths with the desecration of that most sacred of memorials, a war cemetery. The defilement of Commonwealth war graves in northern France coincided with a poll for The Times which found that 54 per cent of Britons no longer regarded France as a close ally because of its opposition to the war. Relations will be further rent by a second poll, in Le Monde, showing that only a third of the French felt that they were on the same side as the Americans and British, and that...

A Third of French Don't Want a Coalition Victory, Poll Shows Paris, March 31 (Bloomberg) -- A third of French people don't want U.S. and British forces to win the war in Iraq, according to an Ipsos poll conducted for Le Monde and TF1. The survey found that 33 percent of French answered ``no'' when asked whether ``deep down'' they wished for a victory of the U.S. and U.K. Fifty-three percent answered ``yes'' and 14 percent didn't respond. The poll was taken on March 28 and 29. Seventy-two percent of respondents disapproved of the military intervention, with 17 percent in...

Majority of French want US victory in Iraq - poll PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - French people overwhelmingly oppose war in Iraq but 53 percent still want the United States to emerge victors, according to a poll released on Monday. However a third of the nearly 1,000 people interviewed by pollster Ipsos for Le Monde newspaper said they did not want the United States and close ally Britain to triumph. Conducted by telephone late last week, the Ipsos survey shows a people split between its conviction that President Jacques Chirac was right to oppose war and a sense of allegiance...