Posted on 12/07/2017 4:05:16 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Exactly. They had THREE divisions ready to oppose the Germans roughly ONE battalion that entered the Rhineland in the mid-30s.
Didn’t get off their asses.
The Germans had orders to hightail it back if they faced any resistance.
Could it be that if France had any backbone then that Hitler could have been marginalized? Hmmm?
Perhaps we could broker a deal where the Nazis could have them back. Then we could nuke the whole fetid lot of them.
Note to the unlearned French ambassador: It was the leadership of France and the U.K. and the staggering war reparations they placed on Germany after WWII which helped to produce the domestic environment in Germany that gave the Nazis causes to organize about. The U.S. was so disgusted with what France and the U.K. were doing that the President of the U.S. left the talks rather than be a party to them. Had France and the U.K. really wanted to not have another war with Germany, they might have not done so much to insure the German people would not soon forgive them for the post-WWI conditions imposed on them. How little the French ambassador remembers. Or maybe in France their history books ignore their own past sins.
And by the way ambassador, was it the U.S. fault that France was so weak as to fall so quickly? Whose fault was that? No one in France?
If France and England had reacted when Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, WWII might have been averted...and the British would not act without the French.
The French did help us in the Revolutionary War, but the surrender of Cornwallis was 236 years ago. Have they done anything for us since apart from sending us the Statue of Liberty?
Why didn’t the US do anything in the thirties?
We weren’t the only ones ‘doing nothing.’
Remember the Phoney War?
Even though Poland was overrun in about five weeks in the German Invasion of Poland beginning on 1 September 1939 and Soviet invasion of Poland beginning on 17 September 1939, the Western Allies did nothing. War had been declared by each side, but no Western power committed to launching a significant land offensive, notwithstanding the terms of the Anglo-Polish and Franco-Polish military alliances which obliged the United Kingdom and France to assist Poland.
Q: Why are the streets of Paris lined with big trees?
A: So the German army can march in the shade.
Then the American army could have ended up trapped like the British when the French army collapsed.
The US Army had about 190,000 soldiers in 1939. The French army had about 900,000. The US had about 8 divisions, the French had about 86.
(The French had more men and aircraft and better tanks than the Germans - but much worse officers).
Arsole or, Araud, or whatever you call yourself, for penance go to the graves of the men from the USA who died for your country and kiss each one. Then go wash your mouth out on a Normandy beach where they shed blood for ungrateful mutts like you.
We should remember that the US refused to side with France and the UK to confront the fascist powers in the 30s.>>>>>>>>>>
Yes, well we should also remember how the Nazis took France via French surrender monkeys who promptly formed a Nazi ass kissing Vichy government, that helped send millions of French Jews to the ovens.
Good thing that the Free French formed and successfully operated a guerilla movement against both the Nazis and the Vichy French, supported by the USA and allies.
My guess is that Missieur Araud is descended from the Vichy French. He sounds like an a$$ kissing liberal fascist of the first water.
My grandfather was an ambulance driver in Argonne during WW-1
That’s impressive. Thank God for men like him.
FDR was forced to freeze the assets of Japan and embargo US exports to Japan because France let Japan occupy their colonies in Indo-China.
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-freezes-japanese-assets
On 7/26/41, President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.
On 7/24/41, Tokyo decided to strengthen its position in terms of its invasion of China by moving through Southeast Asia. Given that France had long occupied parts of the region, and Germany, a Japanese ally, now controlled most of France through Petain’s puppet government, France “agreed” to the occupation of its Indo-China colonies. Japan followed up by occupying Cam Ranh naval base, 800 miles from the Philippines, where Americans had troops, and the British base at Singapore.
President Roosevelt swung into action by freezing all Japanese assets in America. Britain and the Dutch East Indies followed suit. The result: Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil. Japan’s oil reserves were only sufficient to last three years, and only half that time if it went to war and consumed fuel at a more frenzied pace. Japan’s immediate response was to occupy Saigon, again with Vichy France’s acquiescence. If Japan could gain control of Southeast Asia, including Malaya, it could also control the region’s rubber and tin production—a serious blow to the West, which imported such materials from the East. Japan was now faced with a dilemma: back off of its occupation of Southeast Asia and hope the oil embargo would be eased—or seize the oil and further antagonize the West, even into war.
Just remember that FDR and the liberals at first adored the Fascists. It wasn’t until later that they realized what they were up to. I think they liked the moniker “socialist” attached to their name.
For pity sakes, has Europe jumped on the “Blame American for everything” bandwagon?
Q: What does the French battle flag look like?
A: It’s a white cross on a white background.
Q: What does the French battle flag look like?
A: It’s a white cross on a white background.
Yes, maybe this gentleman could discuss this with Caroline Kennedy or any another of Joe Kennedy’s surviving descendants ‘cause we all know how much he admired Hitler back then.
“Maginot Line”
Defended the front door and left the side door open.
So, in its own way, did France.
The French government had made a commitment it couldn't go back on, but it would be wrong to say that the government or the people were hell-bent on stopping Hitler.
They were very lukewarm about the war, and that might help to explain some of what happened in 1940.
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