What the French need in their Vaginas and their Nation
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I preface this with, I do not hate the French for they are Reubenites. It is just that the French give the French people a bad name. The French who should be governing in France are a majority, but the minorities have pushed them out and France has nothing but shitty leaders.
I'm going to introduce you to someone, perhaps even the French readers have no idea who this man is, but he was every bit as remarkable as General de Gaulle. de Gaulle was remarkable as the political leader of all that was France. This man, another General, was remarkable as he was the leader of militant France in their fighting military.
General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny
Let me introduce you to this man, by an interview he had with General George Marshall who as American Secretary of State, as Lattre was about to head what would become NATO, because no one else would..........and because Europe did not have an army to lead.
General de Lattre, an extraordinarily brilliant soldier, was to prove his skill and ability again in Indochina a few years later. He was a rather difficult man and had had several clashes with some of his U.S. colleagues and superiors. One day he asked for an appointment with General Marshall during his stay in Paris. I was instructed to be present in order to translate. General de Lattre, who knew General Marshall from the war, came in, shook hands and they sat down in the living room of the U. S. Embassy residence. General de Lattre began the conversation in an extraordinarily direct and almost brutal way. He said to General Marshall that he had been asked to assume the command of the ground forces of the Western Union after Juin had refused it because there were no forces to command. De Lattre felt, however, that some¬ one had to make a beginning and for that reason he was disposed to accept. The British, French, Belgians, Dutch and Luxembourgers had told him that he had their confidence. He knew, however, that he did not have the confidence of the Americans, and since the Americans would sooner or later be in¬ volved in the defense of Western Europe, he wanted to know how he could get this confidence. General Marshall seemed somewhat taken aback at this directness, but he answered with equal directness. He said, “There were several incidents during the war that made us wonder about you. I came to your head¬ quarters and you talked to me in a very critical way about some of the U.S. commanders in front of the newspapermen.” De Lattre said to him, “No one told me that those men in military uniforms wearing small green tabs on their shoulders were war correspondents. I thought they were staff officers. When I found out later, I was very embarrassed.” “Then,” said General Mar¬ shall, “there was another incident. You crossed the Rhine with¬ out orders from higher authority to do so.” General de Lattre then replied, “General Marshall, you are a soldier. Can you con¬ ceive that after my country had been occupied by the Germans for four years, that at the time when Germany’s enemies were battering their way across the Rhine the French Army should not be present at such a crossing?” General Marshall nodded understandingly and finally said, “There was one other item, and that was when you were asked to evacuate Stuttgart. You re¬ fused to do so.” De Lattre replied, “General, commanding an army within a coalition has always been difficult. Marshal Foch once said that after commanding a coalition, his admiration for Napoleon had decreased considerably.” De Lattre continued, “But commanding an army in a coalition under foreign com¬ mand on the soil of your own country is even more difficult.” He then produced a letter from General de Gaulle as chief of the French provisional government ordering him not to evacu¬ ate Stuttgart. I translated the letter briefly for General Marshall. He looked at de Lattre, smiled and said, “You have my con¬ fidence. Go ahead. Take the command and very shortly we will get congressional authority to give you the equipment for two divisions for the Western Union forces from our stores in Germany.” I was later to see de Lattre on a number of occa¬ sions. He was a forceful commander and a remarkable man. Had he lived, I do not know how the French war in Vietnam would have finished, but I am sure that it would have finished in a way other than the tragic defeat at Dien Bien Phu.
General Lattre was summoned to Vietnam to save France there as they were in defeat. He once again established what the French military could accomplish, but beating the hell out of the Viet Minh communists. His entire command was one of profound success and it was General Vernon Walters who pondered what the world would have been like, if General Lattre had not died of prostate cancer.
There never would have been a Vietnam War for the corporate profit elite of 65,000 dead Americans, two of my family were killed serving in that war.
For what is coming onto this world, the French had better shove aside the shit that his ruling them and find the General Lattre and General de Gaulle to lead them to Christ's return. If not, France will be nothing but a bloodstain on Europe
After de Lattre's arrival in Vietnam, Việt Minh General Giap proclaimed that his army would face "an adversary worthy of its steel". De Lattre's arrival raised the morale of French troops significantly and inspired his forces to inflict heavy defeats on the Việt Minh. He won three major victories at Vĩnh Yên, Mạo Khê and Yen Cu Ha and successfully defended the north of the country against the Việt Minh. At the Battle of Vĩnh Yên, he defeated 2 Việt Minh divisions, totalling 20,000 men under Giap's personal command. He personally took charge of the outnumbered French forces, flying in reinforcements and mustering every available aircraft for airstrikes against the massive Việt Minh formation. Giap retreated after three fierce days of combat that killed 6,000 and wounded 8,000. De Lattre had anticipated Giap's attacks and had reinforced French defences with hundreds of cement blockhouses and new airfields.
In March 1951, at the Battle of Mạo Khê near the port of Haiphong, de Lattre again defeated Giap, who had underestimated de Lattre's army's ability to deploy naval guns and to move reinforcements aboard assault boats on deep estuaries and canals. However, Bernard was killed in action in the Battle for Nam Định, in late May 1951. He had obeyed his father's orders to hold the town at all costs against three Việt Minh divisions. After three weeks of battle the French victory halted Giap's offensive in the Red River Delta.On 20 September 1951, de Lattre spoke at The Pentagon to request American aid and warned of the danger of the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia if northern Vietnam fell completely to the Việt Minh. However, the United States was preoccupied with the Korean War. The US sent de Lattre some transport planes and trucks and other equipment: a "significant contribution" but "scarcely enough to turn the tide for France" in Vietnam.
He was highly regarded by both his French subordinates and Việt Minh adversaries and has been described as the "Gallic version of [General Douglas] MacArthur – handsome, stylish, sometimes charming, yet egocentric to the point of megalomania" and "brilliant and vain" and "flamboyant".
Death
On 20 November 1951, illness forced de Lattre to return to Paris for medical treatment for prostate cancer. He entered the Clinique Maillot in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 18 December. His condition deteriorated in January.His last words before losing consciousness on 9 January were: "Where is Bernard?" He died on 11 January.
De Lattre was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France by the President of France, Vincent Auriol, on the day of his funeral procession, 15 January 1952 at Notre-Dame de Paris, Les Invalides in presence of de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Montgomery. He was buried in a state funeral lasting five days, in what Life magazine described as the "biggest military funeral France had seen since the death of Marshal Foch in 1929"
