Haig and Baker initially didn't take the civilian "riot" seriously.
Haig even joked, asking the guard, "Against me? Is this Shire's new tactic? Is he planning to drown me with the spit of French civilians?"
Baker laughed and leaned over to sip his coffee from the coffee table, his actions relaxed and casual.
The reason for their confidence was that they were not French citizens, in principle, they had no interaction with French military and civilians, and the protests from the French were irrelevant to them.
More importantly, they had troops, over a million British and American Expeditionary Forces, what storm could protesting civilians possibly create!
"Did our troops accidentally harm French civilians?" Haig asked.
Such incidents were frequent, along with looting and uncontrollable urges, with large forces and under the pressures of war, such things were inevitable.
