De Gaulle was lunching at home with his wife on Sunday 7 December 1941 when they heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Passy, who was with them, remembered de Gaulle remarking immediately: ‘The war is now definitely won! And there will be two future phases: the first will be that the Allies will save Germany; the second will be a war between the Russians and the Americans.’9 A few days later he apparently offered another prediction to his military aide Pierre Billotte: ‘From now the English will do nothing without the agreement of Roosevelt.’10
