Roosevelt, though perfectly OK with Stalin, could not imagine anything worse than being ruled as a French colony.
A view many others must have shared.
We refused to help the French against the Reds in Indochina, after the war, but later had no scruples in taking on the whole weight of the fight against Uncle Ho, ourselves.
Our policy for such a long time has been arrogant and stupid.
De Gaulle sent a note to Washington claiming he sought to "re-establish the independence and greatness of France that is necessary for the equilibrium of the world."
He had the strangest notion he ought to align himself and France with Russia to preserve independence from America and Britain.
He seems often to have expressed contempt and enmity for England and America as great as he felt for Germany.
Neither stupidity nor arrogance in policy making has ever been uniquely American.
Reading Fenby, The General.
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