synarchy movement of empire book ii - Pierre Beaudry's Galactic ...

compelled to withdraw the troops it had adventured, established them
without a blow in the whole of the Rhineland territory, in direct contact with
France and Belgium." This did not happen by accident. In spite of the birth
of the Front Populaire unified in the summer 1935, with the anti-fascist
forces of Leon Blum, Maurice Thorez and Edouard Daladier, France had
deliberately invited the beast-man of Germany to swallow up Europe.
The point of no return had arrived. De Gaulle stated: "From that
moment on, our chance of counterbalancing the Reich's new strength before
it was too late seemed to me heavily compromised. I was convinced, in fact,
that Hitler's character, his doctrine, his age, and even the impulse he had
given to the German people, made it impossible for him to wait. Things
would now move too fast for France to be able to make up for the time she
had lost -- even if her rulers had been willing." (p. 26) The beast-man stretto
became unstoppable:
On March 7, 1936, Hitler occupies the demilitarized Rhineland.
On March 13, 1936, the French military begin to man the Maginot Line.
On December 15, 1937, the French War Council debates on the
necessity of restoring the cavalry to its former
glory, and deplores the shortage of 50,000 horses.
On March 11, 1838, Hitler begins the Anschluss against Austria.
On September 29-30, 1938, Hitler signs the Munich Pact with Chamberlain
and Daladier, and Mussolini. Annexation of
Czechoslovakian territories.
On September 1, 1939, Hitler invades Poland.
On September 3, 1939, France and England declare war on Germany.
French troops are settled to stagnate on the Maginot
Line.
On January (?) 1940, during a dinner at Paul Reynaud's house, where
Blum was present, de Gaulle warned that Germany would move west by
Spring, and would take Paris. On January 26, de Gaulle again made a last
attempt. He wrote a memorandum addressed to 80 of the chief leaders of
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