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...including 60,000 killed or dead of wounds (5,000 more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms are French, but the annual drain on trained officers has steadily exceeded the output of Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Aside from the toll of blood from a nation that had bled so much in two world wars, the war was costing France a staggering sum-$1.3 billion last year, of which the U.S. supplied $400 million plus direct delivery of war goods...
...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...
...called Leclerc was born 42 years ago near Amiens. He graduated from Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. A major in 1940, he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped, riding a bicycle some 375 miles to the frontier...
Charles de Gaulle is a French general with an ultraconservative Saint-Cyr background and a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to deal with; H. G. Wells has called him "an artlessly sincere megalomaniac." De Gaullism is something else again. To many & many a Frenchman, especially those inside France, De Gaullism stands for the France that never surrendered, the France that was betrayed by her leaders. General de Gaulle, the individual, derives his strength from the people of France, who are his potent political weapon...
Charles Léon Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...