Chapter 57: De Gaulle, the "White-Eyed Wolf".

Speaking of French politics before World War II, it is simply incomprehensible. The Popular Front, which is currently in power www.biquge.info is a loose coalition of the French Socialist Party, the French Radical Socialist Party, and the French Communist Party.

They are not only fighting against fascist organizations such as the far-right French Action Party and the Fire Cross. Within the ruling coalition, there are also contradictions between the French Socialist Party's Léon Bloom, the Radical Socialist Party's Daladier and the Communist Party's Marcel Garchian.

John had never understood what the First Nations were all about. There is also a confusion about parliamentary politics in France now. In his opinion, shouldn't class struggle be a matter of life and death? You look at how thoroughly the USSR did, not to mention the capitalists, even the kulak class was humanely destroyed.

Either you're like the labor organization in the United States, and everybody has something real. We workers promise not to flip the table, and you capitalists remember to leave us some soup when you eat meat. Hello, I'm good, everyone, it's not bad to maintain social harmony and stability.

What the hell is the legal seizure of power through parliamentary struggle? When the capitalists eat meat, you workers come and try to get you some soup. You're going to take the pot away, and that's fine. I really think that we capitalists would not dare to lift the table.

With such a simple truth, there is no reason not to understand why the French bourgeoisie and the working class have been "happy" together for so many years over who will serve the pot?

What is even more bizarre is that these working-class parties in France not only quarrel with the capitalists in parliament, but also divide themselves into a whole bunch of factions, such as utopian socialism, radicalism, Marxism, anarchism, etc., and quarrel with each other.

It was not with great difficulty that the Union of Independent Socialist Parties, the Socialist Workers' Federation (Possibly), and the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party formed a decent French Socialist Party. Soon after, the Socialist Party quarreled again, and the majority became independent and formed the French Communist Party.

John really can't understand that if he quarrels and separates the family, shouldn't it be a minority being swept away? Why did the majority run away on its own?

Anyway, all in all, not only does John an outsider can't understand the French political scene today, but the French people are also confused. There are constantly various parties formed, merged, reorganized, separated, merged, reorganized, and divided. John reckoned that France's simple kneeling in World War II had a lot to do with the chaos of the current government.

Historically, many French people have even welcomed the fall of France because it meant the end of chaotic parliamentary politics, and the author of "Rubble" has openly stated that defeat is more advantageous than victory, because defeat destroys a "disgraceful parliamentary system".

Therefore, John does not want to "invest" any of the figures currently active in French politics, and he remains skeptical about whether he can communicate with those people normally and effectively. He prefers to cultivate contacts in the French military, after all, there is going to be a war, or talking with a gun in his hand counts.

What are the "potential stocks" of the French military? John thought for a long time before he thought of a man, the future Marshal of France, "The Liberator of Paris" Leclerc.

John thought of Leclerc because the most famous main battle tank in France in the future was named after him. In his previous life, John was very interested in weapons and equipment since he was a child because his parents were both employees of the third-line arsenal. In the 90s, France sold this fourth-generation main battle tank to Wanwan. At that time, the relevant news was in an uproar, and John also learned about this French "famous general" of World War II by the way.

Historically, Leclerc once served as the commander of the 2nd French Armored Division, participated in the Normandy landings and the liberation of France, and fought quite well. But being promoted to the position of a generation of "famous generals" is actually a helpless move by De Gaulle to "pull a general from a short man".

Who let de Gaulle be just a colonel before the war, he couldn't command General Giraud's group of generals and lieutenant generals at all. Before World War II, Leclerc was just a captain instructor at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in France, and he was an ardent supporter of de Gaulle's "armorization of the French cavalry".

At least John didn't see other countries say much about the "famous player's" record. Montgomery, the commander of the British Eighth Army, who had worked with him in North Africa, praised the French officer only in his memoirs for being "very attentive to the supply of fuel and ammunition to the troops, and to find in every possible way ways to ensure the unimpeded flow of transportation."

In any case, this Leclerc is also de Gaulle's preferred successor, and it is necessary to make friends and woo him. In the post-war "Marshall Plan", the United States sent $2.3 billion in various aid supplies to France alone, which is a great temptation for a logistics company.

It must be said that John is still too young to think about the problem a little extremely. I just realized the importance of connections, and I began to rush for success and profit, making the old mistake of the traveler who likes to collect historical celebrities. And John's poor knowledge of history is also a hard hit.

First of all, Leclerc doesn't have that name at all, it's a pseudonym, and his real name is Philippe de Otticlock. It can be seen from the word "de" in the middle that he is still a descendant of a French aristocracy.

In the "Free France" organization led by Charles de Gaulle at the time, the use of pseudonyms was very common. Because after the defeat of France, de jure Vichy France was the legitimate French government. After Marshal Pétain announced his surrender, many of the governors and generals of the French colonies were dissatisfied. They still have a lot of armed forces in their hands, and they believe that France has only lost a battle, and is far from defeating.

But in the end, most of them gave in because they didn't want to bear the reputation of traitors. (Actually, the main reason is that these high-ranking colonial officials are all big businesses in mainland France and can't afford to lose.) And the few soldiers who chose to leave the army and defect to "Free France" used pseudonyms so as not to affect their families in France. Therefore, no matter how much John inquired at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, he could not find Captain Leclerc.

Secondly, Leclerc had not been a French marshal for a day at all, and his rank of marshal was posthumously conferred. He was only a major general during his lifetime, and fell to his death in a plane crash in 1947 when he was the chief of the North African Army. In other words, Leclerc died before the "Marshall Plan" began, and even if he was really a marshal, he couldn't help John.

Therefore, after recovering from his injury, John was busy for a long time, and he did not find the so-called "Captain Leclerc". However, it was at a party organized by the Balleson family that he met Colonel Charles de Gaulle, Marshal Petain's red man.

There's nothing wrong with the saying that the ass decides the head. In his previous life, John still had a good impression of this Western leader who strongly advocated France's withdrawal from NATO, took the lead in recognizing the People's Republic of China, and always went against Britain and the United States. As an American in this life, no matter how you look at it, you think that de Gaulle is an ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

When de Gaulle was a cadet, he was an intern under Petain as a colonel, and it can be said that he was trained by Marshal Petain. On a personal level, Petain was a benefactor to de Gaulle. However, after the end of World War II in 1945, de Gaulle still insisted that the court sentence Petain be sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment.

If it weren't for the support of Britain and the United States, could a young colonel de Gaulle become the leader of post-war France? As a result, he did not withdraw from NATO, reconciled with the Soviet Union, opposed Britain's entry into the European Community, and always contradicted the United States in the Security Council. If it weren't for the support of Britain and the United States, would you be able to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council? Isn't this scolding the cook when you're full!

For the capitalist camp, de Gaulle, who was clamoring for France to be "unique", was a two-five boy with two boats on his feet, and Tito, the Yugoslav leader of the non-aligned movement on the socialist side, was all the same.

And, as President Roosevelt feared at the Casablanca Conference that year, de Gaulle was a leader with dictatorial tendencies. In 1958, 12 years after his disarmament, Charles de Gaulle returned to power with the May riots in Algiers. After coming to power, he changed France to a presidential system and served as French president for 10 years.

In the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, which he proposed, the president has the right to appoint the prime minister and agree with him on the list of cabinet members, to "arbitrate" differences between the cabinet and the parliament, to dissolve the parliament, to enact laws, to submit bills to a "referendum" by passing the parliament, and to take over the government in a "state of emergency". Crucially, the Constitution does not provide any way to monitor or constrain the president's "unlimited powers."

For capitalists like John, dictatorship is the most unacceptable, and it is tantamount to stripping them of their right to participate in the game. So when John first met de Gaulle, he kept squinting at each other.

However, Adele has been good friends with de Gaulle's wife Yvonne since that party. On one occasion, she took Ella to the de Gaulle couple's home in Colombe. After returning, Adele always sighed to John: "Charles is such a good father, he is very patient with Anna. ”

According to Adele, Madame de Gaulle had a serious car accident while she was pregnant with her youngest daughter, Anna. Due to the large amount of drugs taken during the treatment, Anna was born with Down syndrome, and now she is almost 12 years old, and her intelligence is not as good as Ella's, and she can't even speak. De Gaulle was so fond of this little daughter that he would even perform pantomime in public in order to make Anna laugh.

Well, now de Gaulle has become not only a "white-eyed wolf" and a "dictator", but also a hateful "husband of other people". "Am I impatient with Ella?" John muttered discontentedly.

However, after that, John, who was also the father of a girl, still had a trace of identification with de Gaulle in his heart.