Oh yes, Dick -- the pathetic Heath is much in my mind regarding that debacle. But my point was that the egregious de Gaulle was using the question to avoid having to thank anyone for what they had done for him during the war. He was in fact getting revenge on us for putting him in a position where any decent gentleman might have been expected to express a bit of appreciation. He was just too vain & self-important ever to admit that he had any reason to feel any gratitude for the services of assistance and asylum afforded him during his exile.

And, yes indeed!, he had a lot to do with the Resistance -- from a nice safe distance. Good rhyme there, innit. Might work it up into a polemical poem some time, eh!

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