France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939 (105 page)

  
73
.
    
DBFP
, 3, VII, no. 696.

  
74
.
    
DBFP
, 3, VII, no. 699. See Parker, T. quoted, p. 4.

  
75
.
    
DDI
, 8, XIII, no. 581, Attolico to Ciano, 2 September 1939.

  
76
.
    
MAE, Corbin report, p. 5.

  
77
.
    
Ciano,
Diary
, I, op. cit., p. 145. Mostly MAE, T. 3565–3566, François-Poncet, 2 September, 11:10 p.m. Received 3 September, 3:10 a.m. See
LJ
, no. 363.

  
78
.
    
Ciano,
Diary
, I, op. cit., p. 146.

  
79
.
    
A study in *Rossi-Landi, Guy,
La drôle de guerre
, 1971, pp. 15–23. see
JODP
, Chamber, p. 1949–1953; Sénat, p. 640.

  
80
.
    
Although it was greed that the government’s communication would be read first. See *Jeanneney, Jules,
Journal politique
, op. cit., 1 September 1939, p. 6.

  
81
.
    
Op. cit., p. 17.

  
82
.
    
Laval parle
… p. 275. Laval got word to Ciano through the Italian consulate agent in Clermont-Ferrand whom he met on 14 July that, as in January 1935, he favored a Franco-Italian rapprochement. See DDI, 8, XIII, no. 78, Guariglia, 17 August 1939. Laval handed the complete text of what he meant to Guariglia on 14 September. See Guariglia, op. cit. p.127.

  
83
.
    
Carnets secrets…
, p. 86. On 1 September, Gamelin wrote a letter to Daladier regretting that he could not invade Belgium. “We could have spoken roughly to a man like King Albert.” (Archives Riom Trial.)

  
84
.
    
Ibid., p. 86.

  
85
.
    
Ci-devant
, p. 158. Bonnet received a phone call from Cadogan at about 5 p.m. He told him that France “strongly” on a 48-hours delay before beginning hostilities. He rejected the idea of an ultimatum expiring at midnight.

  
86
.
    
MAE, Corbin Report, p. 2.

  
87
.
    
Ibid., p. 5. According to MAE, Hoppenot papers, Chronology, Sir Eric Phipps telephoned Bressy, Bonnet’s cabinet director at 6:40 p.m. to communicate the text of the declaration to Daladier and Bonnet. On the many telephone calls between London and Paris on the afternoon of 2 September, see DBFP, 3, VII, no. 718 (Cadogan-Bonnet, 5 p.m.), no. 727 (Halifax-Phipps, 6 p.m.), no. 740 (Chamberlain-Daladier, 9:50 p.m.), no. 741 (Halifax-Bonnet).

  
88
.
    
This is what Gamelin wrote to Daladier. Daladier telephoned Bonnet on the issue at 7:45 p.m. See MAE, Hoppenot Papers, Chronology.

  
89
.
    
Parker, T. quoted, p. 13. See DBFP, 3, VII, nos. 740 and 741.

  
90
.
    
Ibid., pp. 8–9.

  
91
.
    
MAE, Corbin report, pp. 9–10.

  
92
.
    
LJ
, no. 364, Bonnet to Coulondre, midnight; no. 365, Bonnet to Coulondre, 3 September, 10:30 a.m.

  
93
.
    
Coulondre, op. cit., p. 314. See
LJ
, no. 367, 3 September 1939.

I
NDEX

Abetz, Otto
160–62
,
293
,
296
,
448

Abrial, Jean
136
,
442
,
445

Adam, Magda
431

Adamthwaite, Anthony
iv
,
xi
,
xxiv–xxv
,
304
,
418
,
473–76
,
479
,
482
,
486

Ageron, Charles-Robert
159
,
184–87
,
291
,
296
,
448
,
452
,
470

Albert I, King of Belgium
xxxvi
,
67
,
497

Albord
457

Alexander, King of Yugoslavia
69
,
71
,
75

Alexander, Martin S.
418

Allain, Jean-Claude
xxvi
,
451

Allard, Paul
215
,
420
,
440

Allemane, Jean
294

Aloisi, Baron Pompeo
88
,
97
,
107
,
109

Alphand, Charles
25
,
44–7
,
69
,
102
,
311
,
313
,
428–29
,
438
,
450
,
475

Alphand, Hervé
309
,
311
,
406
,
490
,
495

Amery, Leo
156
,
222

Andrew, C. M.
452

Antignac, Anne-Maries
460

Antonescu, Victor
261–62

Aosta, Duke of
227

Aragon
395
,
470

Arbonneau, Charles de
230

Archambalt, Annick
459

Archambaud, Léon
158

Archimbaud, Léon
100
,
125

Arciszewsky, Miroslav
400

Aris, Jean
242
,
459–60

Armengaud, André
200
,
446–47

Arnal, Pierre
38
,
73
,
421
,
427
,
433
,
459
,
462
,
464

Arnim, Achim von
161

Arnold, Henry H.
382

Aron, Raymond
154

Arrighi, Lieutenant
298

Artaud, Denise
423

Astakhov, Georgi
359

Aster, Sydney
486

Astier de la Vigerie, Henri
299

Astor, Lady Michael
138

Astor, Lord Michael
138
,
155

Attolico, Bernardo
237
,
410
,
476
,
496

Aubert, D.
430

Aubert, Louis
306
,
474

Auburtin, a doctor
211

Aumale, Jacques de
301
,
473

Auffray, Bernard
420
,
456

Auriol, Vincent
xxxiii
,
23
,
128
,
166
,
241
,
243
,
245
,
247–50
,
258
,
459–61

Avenol, Joseph
86
,
435

Aymé-Martin, Albert
178
,
451

Azaña, Manuel
340

Azria, Sylvain
445

Badoglio, Pietro
95–7
,
99
,
228
,
438

Baeyens, Jacques
215

Bailby, Léon
27
,
115
,
121
,
129
,
293

Baillet-Latour, Count de
239

Baillou, Jean
456

Bainville, Jacques
83
,
114

Baldwin, Stanley
104
,
106
,
110
,
130
,
155
,
240
,
248
,
254

Bankwitz, Philip C.
421

Baraduc, Pierre
341

Barbanson, Gaston
33

Bardoux, Jacques
156
,
256
,
298
,
447
,
472
,
478

Bargeton, Paul
xxxii
,
71
,
178
,
217–18
,
239

Bariéty, Jacques
xxvi
,
xxxii
,
12
,
33
,
158
,
419
,
421–22
,
426
,
448

Barra, Francisco de la
339

Barrère, Camille
221

Barrès, Philippe
45
,
83

Bartali, Gino
140

Barthou, Louis
vii
,
xx
,
xxxi
,
xxxiv
,
54–64
,
66–81
,
83–9
,
93
,
100–03
,
111
,
147
,
160
,
170
,
262
,
430–35
,
445

Basdevant, Jules
217
,
347
,
481

Bastid, Paul
241
,
245
,
460

Bathelemy-Madaule, Madeleine
472

Batowski, Henryk
xxvi
,
495

Baudelaire, Charles
56

Baudoin, Paul
225
,
250
,
307
,
314
,
326–27
,
343–44
,
399
,
448
,
478
,
482–83

Baulig, Henri
150

Baumgartner, Wilfrid
47
,
170
,
226
,
247–48
,
459–61

Baumont, Maurice
xxv
,
152

Bayet, Albert
448

Beau de Loménie, Emmanuel
178
,
451

Beaufre, André
191
,
198
,
208–09
,
231
,
357
,
361–63
,
452
,
454
,
486–87

Beaussang, Guy
xxvi

Beck, Josef
xxxii
,
7
,
42
,
65–6
,
68
,
70–1
,
131
,
135
,
148
,
219
,
224
,
261–62
,
305
,
325
,
330
,
362–63
,
384–85
,
397
,
400–01
,
408
,
432
,
464
,
485

Becker, Jean-Jacques
445

Becq de Fouquières, Pierre
217

Bedarida, François
473
,
478

Bedouce, Albert
245

Beigbeder, Colonel
481

Belin, René
188
,
294
,
399

Bellanger, Catherine
471

Bellec, Anne-Marie
472

Belugou, Sylvie
454

Benaërts, Pierre
152

Benedetti, Vincent
323

Benedict, Ruth
xxxiv

Beneš, Eduard
40–42
,
66
,
68
,
71
,
135
,
219
,
224
,
262
,
272–75
,
277–80
,
282–87
,
290–91
,
293
,
295
,
300
,
305
,
465–66

Bennett, Edward
422
,
424

Benoist-Méchin, Jacques
161

Benoit, Pierre
151

Bénouville, Guillain de
162

Béra, Armand
464

Beran, Rudolf
334

Bérard, Armand
xxvi
,
xxxii
,
216
,
219
,
223
,
236
,
419
,
445
,
456

Bérard, Léon
295
,
339–41
,
425
,
441
,
456
,
458
,
463
,
477
,
481–82

Béraud, Henri
151