I did not disparage his memory, instead I pointed out how the French like to rewrite history to make them look favorable. The part I wrote about the French stating that they really won by surrendering in the early days of WW2, was based on an interview I saw back in the early 1960s. This was later used in the book Catch 22.
Wooly - Thanks for clarifying your earlier comment. That early 60s interview you mentioned is interesting. I wonder how the correspondent involved would have accounted for th French Indochina experience. According to Bernard Fall (Street Without Joy), France as a nation suffered proportionately greater overall losses there than most of the nations that fought in WW2.
... not to lead this thread too far astray.