You'll notice that they're on the white part of the flag. They are symbols of the waving white flag of French surrender to whatever and whomever is demanding it.
Just kidding...I don't really know.
Posted on 06/14/2006 3:45:29 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
I bet they could name all the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus though.
You'll notice that they're on the white part of the flag. They are symbols of the waving white flag of French surrender to whatever and whomever is demanding it.
Just kidding...I don't really know.
Oh, and the stars show how many troops it took to convince the French to give up.
Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? So the Germans can march in the shade.
'Roosevelt replied that the United States was prepared to send material aid-and was willing to have that promise published--but Secretary of State Cordell Hull opposed such a publication, knowing that Hitler, as well as the Allies, would take such a public declaration of help as but a prelude to a formal declaration of war'
Clearly Hull was running the show, not Roosevelt.
Why does this article refer to the 'Allies'. Who were the allies at this time? Evidently not the US as if they had been an ally they would have declared war. It must mean Britain and her empire as the US was to continue appeasing Hitler until Pearl Harbour forced them into the war, two years after Britain declared war.
Prussians once (Franco-Prussian War)...
You're right, I forgot 1815 was the second time.
French Authorities have ordered the trees on the Champs Elysee cut down. The Germans needed the shade, but the jihad vermin are known to prefer the sun..
L'appeasement!
Don't forget that the Romans conquered France.
There's a great comment in the movie where Tom Selleck portrayed Ike. On one scene, Monty is crowing about how the French forces will be aiding the allies after D-Day. In the next, the allied generals are watching a newsreel report about how long the Warsaw ghetto uprising held out against the Germans. Someone then points out that the starving, exhausted Warsaw residents held off the Germans longer than the entire French military. Zing.
The US wasn't ready to declare war in 1940. June 14 is also the date that the Naval Expansion Act was signed. $6 billion for an addition bigger than the then current size of the German navy. The new construction didn't really start rolling in until mid-1942.
One has to remember that the Europeans were all gearing up for war after the early 1930s.
There's another of photo of him visiting the tomb of Napoleon. No doubt the emperor was spinning in it.
Damn Great Britain and her unilateralism. /s
They'd heard that the prior day as they scampered out of town.
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