[LMB] OT: pour encourage les autres was Convert and quotation

[Richard Suitor]

 sent this once, got an error message.  apologies if duplicate.

On 7/5/06, Paula Lieberman <paal at gis.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
I wrote:
> > Should that remind me of Patton's hope that his charges remained more
> > scared of him than of the enemy?  (very loose paraphrase and in this
Paula:
> That was how the British Army operated, the enemy MIGHT kill the soldiers,
> the British officers WOULD kill them, if they turned tail and ran.

I believe many armies have that as the bottom line.  Have no idea of
relative incidences.  I understand it was not good for career or
health to be a repatriated Soviet POW after WWII.


Richard