Thrice elected Prime-Minister of France, and no particular admirer of the U.S.A., André Tardieu (1876 – 1945) put pen to paper and wrote a book about the French – American relationship in his diplomatic tome “Devant l’Obstacle” (1927):
“They go on repeating the words ‘American friendship’ without realizing that America as a nation does not want friendships, and separates herself from her political associates the moment she can do so, as unceremoniously as she did in 1919, when she signed a separate peace with Germany. Few French students know or remember that less than twenty years after Lafayette left the American shores, America was at war with the country to which she virtually owed her freedom…”
