I will inform you of that which is right, but instructing you that
everything about you is wrong.
“You tell me it is dangerous for me to know something that a thousand Soviet corporals already know. This I cannot accept. France retains the desire to be great. A weapons program gives you a technical ruboff that makes you competitive on world markets in a thou¬ sand other ways.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
General De Gaulle was Respected with a Nuclear Weapon by the Soviet Union, but with Manny Macron waving around nuclear weapons, the Russians now ridicule that fool.
Note the lesson in it is the will of the people with nuclear weapons, not the nuclear weapons which makes them a force.
“Unlike the British, we have not lost our taste for excellence.” He then told President Eisen¬ hower that he would detonate his first nuclear weapon on February 13 of the following year and that it would have a yield of sixty kilotons. Eisenhower enjoined me sharply to secrecy, but told me I could tell the G-2 of the Army, General Willems, and tell verbally, and to put nothing in writing. On that day, indeed, General de Gaulle did detonate his weapon and it did have a yield of that order.
General de Gaulle also expressed concern about the future, saying that “You, Eisenhower, would go to nuclear war for Europe because you know what is involved and what is at stake. But as the Soviet Union develops the capability to strike the cities of North America, one of your successors,” he said, “will be unwilling to go to nuclear war for anything short of a nuclear strike against North America. When that comes, I or my succes¬ sor must have in hand the nuclear means to turn what the So¬ viets may want to be a conventional war into a nuclear war. I do not seek to compete with the Strategic Air Command or the Long Range Air Army, but I wish France to have some means of tactical and strategic strike against the Soviet Union. You see, the addition of another center of nuclear decision will multiply geometrically the uncertainties for the Soviet planners of what will happen if they invade Western Europe.” He then said, “You Americans could survive for a short time the loss of West¬ ern Europe. We Europeans could not. The Soviets know me and they knew that if I have this capability and they invade Western Europe, I will use it, and this will be one more deter¬ rent as far as they are concerned. I must have the ability to be unbearable by myself.”
General de Gaulle went on to say that the United States was making a great fetish out of the United Nations because we con¬ trolled a majority in that body. But he said that with the “flowering of independence,” which the United States was spon¬ soring, we would gradually lose control of the United Nations to the third-world nations, which included and would include in the future many small states or city-states of a few hundred thousand population. The day would come when these thirdworld nations in control of the United Nations would order the United States to do something contrary to its fundamental interests.
The Russians do not note anything in Western Europe to be afraid of nor to respect.
- Lame Cherry
That afternoon as we flew out to Rambouillet, the Prime Minister, Mr. Michel Debre, was with us in the helicopter and President Eisenhower, looking over the suburbs of Paris, noted the extraordinary amount of construction that had taken place recently. This was in marked contrast with the period he had spent at SHAPE, when there had been building all over Europe, but not in France. He asked Debre why this sudden change had come about. Debre answered very simply and frankly, “Since General de Gaulle has returned, we now know that there will be a future for France.”
That future is now in question, not only in France, but in all of Western Europe, as leadership can not appear with minority socialism, picking the pockets of Russian Federation, robbing Peter to pay the Pawn Shop owners.
Nuff Said
Nuff Said
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