tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5836886647354039427..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: You must remember this...Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-79716507514054250972014-11-26T10:57:12.133+00:002014-11-26T10:57:12.133+00:00Mark,
It was a bad decision to let de Gaulle (who...Mark,<br /><br />It was a bad decision to let de Gaulle (who had been hidden in safe exile for most of the war) lead the armies into Paris. It should have been the Americans who'd actually got there first.<br /><br />I'm no fan of de Gaulle. It was the Americans, British and Canadians that did most of the heavy lifting liberating France, along with French resistance forces (most of which were co-ordinated from London), and they stupidly let him lead the forces into Paris, giving him a lot more credit than he deserved. The actual French resistance? Big Damn Heroes.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-68999640029751035552014-11-26T10:11:42.599+00:002014-11-26T10:11:42.599+00:00Very strange. Why would a journalist bother going ...Very strange. Why would a journalist bother going to so much trouble just to get something wrong?<br /><br />And Weygand was not a collaborator, that was the official French government. The same as the UK government continued being the UK government even though we had lost territory to enemy countries.<br /><br />If anything De Gaulle was the worst traitor, we very kindly looked after him and tolerated his twattish French ways during the war, then allowed him to impose himself as some sort of French head of state after we'd one it for him, and he still did his best to do us down and never said thanks.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-20879064822610437852014-11-26T00:26:19.825+00:002014-11-26T00:26:19.825+00:00this could be the beginning of a beautiful friends...this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Stig....Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-80429646847906700562014-11-26T00:10:34.862+00:002014-11-26T00:10:34.862+00:00Graeme,
You'll regret that comment. Maybe not...Graeme,<br /><br />You'll regret that comment. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-29037132155812785082014-11-25T23:54:38.886+00:002014-11-25T23:54:38.886+00:00Hill of beans. Hill of beans. View from the Solenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00930587784230398787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-29716739540290051852014-11-25T23:27:48.513+00:002014-11-25T23:27:48.513+00:00your pedantic niggle does not add up to a pile of ...your pedantic niggle does not add up to a pile of beans in this crazy worldGraemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.com