Voluntarily withdrawing from NATO and being kicked out of NATO by the Americans are two completely different concepts. The fact that the www.biquge.info took the initiative to withdraw means that you de Gaulle did not want to mix with NATO at all, and you parted ways with NATO with an iron heart. This shows that all the previous things were done by you on your own initiative, in order to achieve the goal of withdrawing from NATO. In this way, the Americans could fight back and blame De Gaulle for everything.

And if de Gaulle does not take the initiative to withdraw from NATO, and the matter is left to you, the United States, what can you do as an American? As far as the United States is concerned, if de Gaulle plays Lippi, there is really no good countermeasure. Either kick France out of NATO, or force your disgust to acquiesce in France's continued stay in NATO.

But either way, it's a pain in the face for the United States. Driving away Gaul *** De Gaulle will naturally put all the black pot on the head of the United States, he can announce: "France has not withdrawn from NATO, and there is no idea of staying away from allies, we are willing to stay in NATO to play a role, it is the Americans who are small and chicken-bellied insist on driving us away, they just don't allow Europe to have their own opinions, they just can't see Europe good!" ”

Even more sensational, de Gaulle could still say this: "France has always been of one mind with the European allies, and has always stood with the European allies, even if it is driven out of North Vietnam, France is still willing to advance and retreat with the allies!" ”

It is conceivable that if de Gaulle had said this, all the pressure of public opinion would have been transferred to the United States, and all the hats such as hegemonism, driving out allies, and having no one in sight would be put on the head of the United States. At that time, international public opinion was very unfavorable, at least Eisenhower could not tolerate such an outcome.

Then if you don't drive the French away, you should not see these bastards? This is not impossible, but it is too painful, and it is equivalent to letting the French take advantage of it, and the Americans do not like such a result.

So what is the final choice of the Americans? The Americans chose the second approach, temporarily tolerating France's stay in NATO, but gave a new warning: "What France has done is a complete betrayal of NATO, and the reason why France has not been expelled from NATO is that the US government believes that it is only a very small number of politicians who have made mistakes, and it has nothing to do with the broad masses of the French people." The U.S. government, which advocates freedom and is willing to maintain freedom and peace, will not forget its responsibility to safeguard democracy and freedom even if it is offended and betrayed, so we are willing to protect the French people, and we also believe that the French people will soon see through the true colors of those despicable politicians and understand the greatness of the U.S. government! ”

To tell the truth, there is no point in saying this, that is, the Americans are just trying to help themselves save some face. As for whether the French people will appreciate it, it is really hard to say, at least for the time being, it seems that most of them do not appreciate it.

De Gaulle was also quite proud of this result, and after this confrontation, he almost achieved his goal, received more generous and less costly aid from the Soviet Union, expelled the Anglo-American influence in France, and raised his approval rating to a new height with a wave of faces. And with the adoption of the new constitution, his power as president has been greatly strengthened, and to put it bluntly, he is now the poisoner of France.

De Gaulle was finally able to make a big move, and as soon as he got his footing, he began to settle the old scores of the Fourth Republic, striking hard at the national parliamentarians who could only talk about it, and reactivating the French state apparatus.

However, there are many problems before de Gaulle, such as Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. His response was to gradually withdraw his troops and allow the former colonies to become autonomous or independent. Although this practice was attacked by many French colonialists, the common people did not have much opinion about it, because the three colonies consumed too many financial resources. By giving them up, France's finances were freed up to invest more money in social welfare programs, and the common people were most concerned about this.

About half of these savings were spent on social welfare programs, one-third were allocated to scientific research institutions, and the rest was waived. So the French people feel that their welfare has been improved, and the tax burden has been reduced, and even because the military industry has received more funds, the number of jobs has increased. Do you think they would welcome such an adjustment?

In any case, de Gaulle did not have much effort to solve the resistance of the colonialists, his approval rating was rising, and the position of the president was becoming more and more secure.

And this is out-and-out bad news for the Americans, when de Gaulle announced the withdrawal of troops from North Africa, American thinkers generally believed that this would detonate French politics, De Gaulle would soon be ousted from power, and then everything would return to normal. But instead of stepping down, de Gaulle became more and more consolidated, which was like a choke in the throat for Americans.

Yes, France has become a nasty fish bone, within NATO, France just doesn't follow the rhythm of the United States, almost everything the Americans say they have to oppose, the Americans want to impose their weapons standards on NATO, but the French just don't agree, even Britain has succumbed to the relevant agreements and passed, but France just doesn't fulfill them, and they say that they will never accept the standards imposed by the Americans, which makes the Americans angry and hateful.

And after France brought this bad head, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy were not so obedient, which made the United States have to pay a greater price to win them over. All in all, the Americans hated De Gaulle to death.

Eisenhower was furious: "That bastard must be given a little color!" ”

Why was Eisenhower so angry? The reason is very simple, at NATO's artillery caliber selection conference, France said no to the 39-caliber 155-mm guns of NATO's new standard, and the French just want to do their own set. Moreover, on the issue of the Soviet Union, the French also took a tough attitude and said that they would not follow the hardline policy of the United States, advocated easing the confrontation in Europe, and demanded a peace policy.

These were unbearable for Eisenhower, who was an active advocate of foreign expansion, so Mr. President made up his mind to give the French a little color!

"Take back those M48 tanks and don't lend them to the French anymore!"

Some comrades may find it strange, what is going on with this M48 tank? It turned out that after the end of World War II, France, which had joined the NATO camp, was supposed to undertake military tasks within the framework of NATO, which required France to build a decent armored force. But we know that the French tank industry came to an abrupt end in 1940. Don't look at the interruption of only five or six years, but these five or six years are the five or six years of the most rapid development of tanks, and the technology and design of 1940 are outdated in 1946 and 1944. Moreover, the French economy was tight after the war, and it could not come up with a large amount of money to develop armored forces, so the only way to catch up with the world's advanced level in a short period of time was to introduce tanks.

After some investigations, in 1951 France decided to introduce the American M47/M48 tanks. It's not that the performance of this tank is ideal, the main thing is that it doesn't cost money. These tanks are leased by the United States to France for use free of charge, which is actually equivalent to military aid. With this batch of M47/M48 tanks, France has developed a decent armored force.

However, now the United States and France have fallen out, and as mentioned earlier, these tanks were only leased by the United States to France for use. In other words, the ownership is still in the hands of the United States, and now that the French are not honest, the Americans have decided to give France eye medicine. Therefore, the U.S. government quickly informed France and demanded or ordered the early withdrawal of these tanks.

De Gaulle didn't know that this was a retaliatory measure by the Americans, and to be honest, he felt that the Americans were quite tasteless, and the Lend-Lease agreement that had just been reached was about to be torn up. And de Gaulle is also a tough person, if you don't give tanks, you won't give them, do you think this will make Lao Tzu submit? Return all these M47/M48, and Lao Tzu won't want your broken copper and iron.

More than 100 M47 tanks were returned to the United States within half a year of their arrival in France, along with a batch of M4 medium tanks given to France by the Americans after the victory in 1945. De Gaulle's meaning is very simple, don't you Americans want to get stuck in your neck? Okay, I don't want any of your broken copper and iron, I will give it to you, and everyone will break up in two!

Of course, de Gaulle was stubborn, but the French armored forces still had to live. So was there a magazine in France at this time? Truth be told, not really. At this time, the only tank that France could produce itself was the AMX-13 tank with a swinging turret, which had almost zero defense, and was more like a self-propelled anti-tank gun than a serious tank.

Anyway, the effectiveness of this thing is very limited, let alone confronting the Soviet Union armor torrent head-on, I'm afraid it is also quite dangerous to face the Nazi iron stream in World War II. All in all, it was a stopgap measure, a make-up by France when they could not design and produce medium tanks.

In fact, the French also knew that its effectiveness was limited, and originally expected to use the American M47/M48 transition and slowly develop their own medium tanks. And now the Americans have torn up the agreement, which has forced the development of the French armored division to be adjusted.

According to the estimates of the armored department, the most optimistic situation was that France would be able to produce its own medium tank around 1955. During this period, there must be a window period of three to five years, and if you don't want to run naked, you can only import it from abroad.

De Gaulle accepted this suggestion, and the introduction of a small number of medium tanks for emergencies was inevitable, and the next key question was where to bring them from. The United States certainly does not have to think about it, and even if the United States agrees to sell tanks, de Gaulle will not buy them. He's a strong man!

After excluding the United States, there are only a handful of countries with relatively advanced medium tanks, and in fact, there is only one within the framework of NATO. That's the UK. At this time, the British's Centennial Captain had already been put into production, and even improved to the MK3 model, which can be regarded as a full-fledged shelf product.

If France wants to buy it, it shouldn't be much of a problem. As long as there is money to be made, the British are happy to make trades. Of course, to be honest, De Gaulle had a certain degree of resistance to the introduction of British tanks, first of all, he did not want to be looked down upon by Churchill, that old guy would definitely laugh at him behind his back, and he did not want to fuel the "arrogance" of the British. Secondly, he also had a bad sense of British tanks, and the low-speed Iron Turtle was far from the armored thinking advocated by De Gaulle and France at this time (the French preferred tanks with more firepower and mobility, that is, the so-called thinking of exchanging mobility for defense), and it has to be said that these two kinds of thinking were so incompatible that even if there was no other choice, De Gaulle did not like British tanks.

But in the end, de Gaulle endured it, anyway, this batch of tanks is only used for transitional emergencies, and the number of purchases will not be very large, let's cross the current pass first!

So France and Britain quickly began negotiations, and the two sides were willing to sell and the other was willing to buy, and the deal should be done. But soon the unexpected happened, and the Americans stepped in to stir up the situation, and they put a lot of diplomatic pressure on Britain to force Britain to terminate the deal or refuse to give Britain more economic aid. Under this tremendous diplomatic pressure, Churchill also had to give in, and he could only regret to tell de Gaulle that the deal had fallen through.

You can imagine how angry De Gaulle was, even if your Yankees took back the tanks they helped, they even messed up the business of buying tanks for Lao Tzu, you think this will stump Lao Tzu, you are looking for embarrassment, you know if you are embarrassed!

Why did de Gaulle say that Americans were looking for embarrassment? The reason is very simple, as mentioned earlier, France has very few channels for purchasing tanks, and there is only Britain within the framework of NATO, but out of the framework of NATO, it is not that no one can provide first-class tanks, and the Soviet Union can do it!

In fact, after hearing that the United States and France fell out because of the tank issue, the Soviet Union quickly came to the door to sell its own tanks, and the price was very favorable. However, de Gaulle politely rejected the Soviet proposal for the time being out of political considerations. And now that he is forced by the United States to be anxious, he also let it go, don't give Lao Tzu M48, don't let Lao Tzu buy a hundred captains, then Lao Tzu directly asks the Soviet Union to buy T55, and then it depends on where you put the face of the United States!

Soon, at the behest of de Gaulle, this wind was released, and for a time the whole of NATO was boiling. Buying tanks from the worst enemy, NATO countries really admire de Gaulle's brains, what does it have to be to do such a thing?

Anyway, the Americans immediately expressed their strongest protest and condemnation, accusing France of betraying NATO, and if France does not immediately pull back from the precipice, then the United States and NATO will never sit idly by and ignore it, and will definitely give France the most serious punishment...... (To be continued.) )