That B ritain and France has seats in the Security Council and Germany and Japan do not, is of course, a reflection of the world of 1945. But the hostility of France to the US goes back to the beginning of the United States, when France bankrupted herself to help us free ourselves from British rule, only to get nothing out of it except bills they could not pay. Push come to shove, we continued to have more in common with Great Britain than with France. Indeed, we had more in common with Germany. Millions of Germans immigrated to the United States. It is one of the great ironies of history that the Commander of the AEF during WWI and the Commander of the Anglo-Saxon forces during WWII were Americans of German descent. By contrast, immigrantion from France was quite small, in large part because of slow poipulation growth of France during the 19th Century. An American with a Frenmch name is usually a descendent of French colonials.
I understand French immigration to the US were small, but how many were indirect descendents from Quebecois or Maritime French-Canadians that initially moved to New England in the 19th century? In addition, there were French Creoles in New Orleans and Acadians in rural Louisiana. So there are still a number of French descents living in the US. How do they compare with German migrants' descendents in numbers?