As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The following is not for a judgment, but for the interest of a man who saved a nation from obliteration by Adolf Hitler and Frank Roosevelt.
Charles de Gaulle as a child, asked his Mama if he could ride the pony that day. She replied that he had ridde the pony the day before so the answer was no.
This this Charles stated, "The I will be naughty", and promptly threw his toys down and started to stamp and scream.
Mrs. de Gaulle had little disciplinary ability with the child.
Papa de Gaulle was different. He would call out, "Charles".
Charles would answer "Yes Papa."
Papa would question, "Charles are you being a good boy?"
"Yes Papa".
"Charles are you bullying Jacques?"
"No Papa".
"Nor Pierre?"
"No Papa".
"Well then here are two sous so that you will go on being kind to your brothers".
The reason for the questioning was Charles once locked the bedroom door, refused to open it for his Mama, as he flung books at the the head of crying Pierre.
On the day of the liberation of Paris in World War II, Charles de Gaulle was the symbol of France. The insight to the man are revealed in two stories of that day involving him.
For several years, Winston Churchill had been driven to almost fuming madness in Charles de Gaulle would not be a good English boy, and Frank Roosevelt was eternally perturbed that Charles de Gaulle was not going to agree to Roosevelt doing to France, what Hitler had done.
As the procession was about to begin, Charles de Gaulle noticed a young resistance fighter in the distance and beckoned him forward. The boy came running up, but just as he neared, Charles de Gaulle stopped him and stated, "There is no smoking in the procession".
As the French marched through the streets of Paris, a fellow leader of Free France began pacing Charles de Gaulle at the head of the column. In a stern voice, Charles de Gaulle ordered "A little to the rear please".
When it came to France, Charles de Gaulle was unyielding. He learned this as a child in not yielding his postion to his siblings and not giving in to his Mama. For his Papa, who was a brilliant teacher, he learned the art of diplomacy in doing things he would not like to do.
In his personal life Charles de Gaulle followed the rules for Faith and France. All else was displaced by these foundations of the man who would not yield, to the leader of Vichy France when indicted and sentenced to death. to Winston Churchill, Joe Stalin or Frank Roosevelt.
General de Gaulle lectured the British once as they like Frank Roosevelt were lifting their skirt for Vichy France allied with the Nazis. de Gaulle correctly stated that in war, Faith and Morality, holding that which is right is what moved peoples. This is what sustained them and that which would produce a stability of nations after the war was over.
One could not make deals with the devil, in Vichy hunting down their own people and making pacts with the Nazis. The French would reject any ally which was involved in such betrayal. There was no expediency in this. There was what was right and there was what was wrong and wrong could never be made right.
Nuff Said
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