Originally Posted by duhhuh
Given Gen. Patton's disdain for the French, I believe he had no trust in the French. He felt better facing a known enemy than an untrustworthy 'friend'.!
Probably apocryphal, but George P. supposedly liked to raise his eyebrows and, with mock surprize, exclaim, "What, the g*dmn*d French surrendered
again?"
Stand down, Will D., the General seemed to have much respect for Germans, thinking they would be handy allies for storming across the Eastern Bloc and into Stalin's heart of darkness.