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Many of the world's complaints about the French have emerged as an appropriate reaction to the adversarial, antagonistic, radically-Socialist, and dangerously provocative government, culture, and people of France. The French people and their elected government have consistently undermined, undercut, and obstructed the Foreign Policy of its former allies.

France's re-alignment with and support for anti-Western and totalitarian nations has recently reached a crescendo with:

1. Joint Franco-Russian and Franco-Chinese military exercises

2. Efforts by the French government to sell high technology weapons to the Chinese military for potential use against U.S. Troops in the defense of Taiwan

3. A track record of aiding and abetting terror-sponsoring regimes such as Syria, Iran, and Iraq

As a consequence of these and other adversarial and highly provocative French policies towards the U.S., French President Jacques Chirac is the only major world leader not to have been invited to Washington, D.C. in over 6 years. Another ominous development is the U.S. defense establishment sharply limiting military access and cooperation with the French armed forces.

FRANCOPHOBIA

Francophobia represents an appropriate reaction towards the adversarial, antagonistic, radically-Socialist, and dangerously provocative government, culture, and people of France. The French people and their elected government have been consistently hostile and undermined, undercut, and obstructed the foreign policy of its former allies.

Anti-Western policy in France has recently reached a crescendo with:

1. Joint Franco-Russian and Franco-Chinese military exercises

2. Efforts by the French government to sell high technology weapons to the Chinese military for potential use against U.S. Troops in the defense of Taiwan

3. A track record of aiding and abetting terror-sponsoring regimes such as Syria, Iran, and Iraq

As a consequence of these and other adversarial and highly provocative French policies towards the U.S., French President Jacques Chirac is the only major world leader not to have been invited to Washington, D.C. in over 6 years. Another ominous development is the U.S. defense establishment sharply limiting military access and cooperation with the French armed forces.

112 Gripes about the French was a handbook issued by the US military authorities to GIs arriving in France after the Liberation. It was meant to defuse the growing tension between the American military and the locals.

By the end of 1945 the joy of victory had long since faded. Instead there was mounting hostility between proud, poor, resentful "Froggies" and swaggering, dollar-happy "Yanks". Brawls were increasingly common, and concern about a complete breakdown in relations had gone up to government-level.

Set out in a question-and-answer format, it posed a series of well-rehearsed complaints about the French and then to each provided a common-sense rejoinder - the aim of the authors being to bring the average American soldier to a rounder understanding of his hosts.

It has recently been republished in the United States (ISBN 1-4191-6512-7), and in France under the title "Nos amis les Français" ("Our friends the French"), ISBN 2-7491-0128-X.

See also

• Anti-French sentiment in the United States
• Franco-American relations
• Francophobia
• Military history of France during World War II
• Military of the United States

External links

• Full text of the handbook
• Full Text with original illustrations but a few typing erors
• BBC comments on the recent republishing of the handbook

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