France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939 (95 page)

106
.
    
Ibid. pp. 205–209. The German press wrote about a “Communist Republic” in the Pyrénées orientales;
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 294, Arnal, 14 January 1937.

107
.
    
On 15 January 1937 at the Chamber with the unanimous vote of 598, on the 21st in the Senate with the unanimous vote of 285 the draft of the law granting full power to the government to prevent the volunteers from leaving. See Bonnefous, VI, p. 94.

108
.
    
Breen, Catherine, op. cit., pp. 46–52.

109
.
    
Ibid. pp. 68–69.

110
.
    
Ibid. p. 76.

111
.
    
*Wormser (Georges),
Georges Mandel, l’homme politique
, pp. 204–205.

112
.
    
Breen, Catherine, op. cit., pp. 120–128. See an annex diploma by *Mollat du Jourdin, Chantal,
Le journal “L’Aube” et la guerre civile espagnole, 1965
.

113
.
    
See CEP, I, p. 219. *Moch, Jules,
Naissance et croissance du Front populaire
, 1966, p. 47. See Dreifort, op. cit., p. 56.

114
.
    
DDF
, 2, II, no. 39, Delbos to Corbin, 26 November 1936.

115
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 62, Corbin, 30 November 1936.

116
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 69, Delbos to Corbin, 1 December 1936.

117
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 99, François-Poncet, 5 December 1936, and no. 130, 11 December 1936. Answer in no. 136, 12 December 1936.

118
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 101, Laboulaye, 5 December. 1936, and no. 127, 10 December 1936.

119
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 134, Aimé Leroy, Lisbonne, 12 December 1936.

120
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 142, Blondel, 13 December 1936.

121
.
    
This number was suggested by Ambassador Herbette on 19 February 1937 (
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 471).

122
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 78, Corbin, 2 December 1936,. A memo from the political directorate (no. 95, 4 December 1936) admitted that the distribution memos of 21 August and 29 November were practically ineffectual. The border was breached by “organized groups.” Furthermore the Italian press published a letter from de Los Rios stating that Léon Blum promised to help Spain on July 25.

123
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 147, Delbos to Corbin, 14 December 1936.

124
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 199, Corbin, 23 December 1936.

125
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 205, Delbos, 24 December 1936.

126
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 343, Note from the deputy chief of staff of the Marine, Admiral Godfroy, regarding a conversation with Corbin, 23 January 1937.

127
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 449, Corbin, 16 February. 1937.

128
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 465, François-Poncet, 18 February 1937.

129
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 283, Corbin, 15 April 1937.

130
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 476, François-Poncet, 31 May, and no. 478, Corbin, 31 May.

131
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 99, Delbos, 20 June 1937.

132
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 125, Note of the Minister’s audience, 25 June 1937.

133
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 355, Delbos to Cambon, 26 August 1937, asking about the expected English position.

134
.
    
DDF
, 2, II, no. 461, 16 July 1936.

135
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 361, Note from the deputy directorate at the League of Nations, 27 August 1937.

136
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 364, Delbos to Cambon, 29 August 1937. Id., no. 265.

137
.
    
DDF
, 2, V, no. 369, Cambon, 30 August 1937.

138
.
    
The French summaries of the meeting in
DDF
, 2, V.

139
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 9, Note from the political directorate Paris, 20 November 1936.

140
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 81, Lacroix, Prague, 2 December 1936; no. 156, Dampierre. Belgrade, 16 December 1936.

141
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 334, 21 January 1937.

142
.
    
DDF
, 2, IV, no. 281, Delbos to Lacroix, 11 January 1937.

143
.
    
See Dreifort,
Delbos
, op. cit., p. 137.

144
.
    
See Noël,
L’agression allemande
…, op. cit., pp. 139–143. See Gamelin,
Servir
, II, pp. 232–233; Lukasziewicz, op. cit., p. 15.

145
.
    
See *Michel, Henri, “Le Front populaire et l’URSS,”
Les relations franco-britanniques de 1935 à 1939
, pp. 215–221, and *Costantini, Colonel A., “L’armée rouge. Son évolution de 1918 à 1938,” offset; Lukasziewicz, op. cit., pp. 17–21.

146
.
    
Bérard, op. cit., p. 345.

147
.
    
Dreifort, op. cit., p. 141. Armand Bérard, who accompanied Delbos, wrote a very lively account of that trip, op. cit., pp. 346–369. See also Noël,
L’agression allemande
…, op. cit., pp. 174–179.

148
.
    
Noël,
L’agression allemande
…., op. cit., p. 175. On that occasion Beck demanded colonies for Poland.

149
.
    
See above, Chap. XIII.

Chapter XI

T
HE
Y
EAR OF
M
UNICH

    
1
.
    
The summary was the famous “Hossbach Protocol,” well known following the Nuremberg Trials. See
ADAP
.

    
2
.
    
DDF
, 2, VII, no. 196, François-Poncet, 6 November 1937.

    
3
.
    
DDF
. 2, VII, no. 215, 10 November 1937.

    
4
.
    
DDF
, 2, VII, no. 220, 11 November 1937.

    
5
.
    
DDF
, 2, VII, no. 212, 10 November 1937.

    
6
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 34, 25 January 1938. Very many other dispatches. See *Puaux, Gabriel,
Mort et transfiguration de l’Autriche, 1933–1935
, Paris, 1966, pp. 81–130.

    
7
.
    
See among others
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 10, 19 January 1938, and no. 67, 30 January 1937.

    
8
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 140, Puaux, 11 February 1936.

    
9
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 205, Note from the French service at the League of Nations written by Pierre Arnal, 18 February 1938.

  
10
.
    
See Dreifort, J.,
Delbos
, op. cit., p. 185.

  
11
.
    
*Werth, Alexander,
Twilight of France
, p. 142, quoted in Dreifort, op. cit., p. 186.

  
12
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 169, Delbos, 16 February 1938; no. 180, Corbin, 16 February 1938, no. 185, François-Poncet, 17 February 1938. “My British colleague did not receive instructions to coordinate with me,” he wrote and that “he handled his initiative in the most benign manner.”

  
13
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 190, 12 February 1938.

  
14
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 225, 21 February 1938.

  
15
.
    
Dreifort, op. cit., p. 187. Delbos and Eden met in Geneva on 28 January,
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 53. Note from deputy division at the League of Nations.

  
16
.
    
See Rowse, op. cit.

  
17
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 275, Corbin, 25 February 1938.

  
18
.
    
See Dreifort, op. cit., p. 188.

  
19
.
    
Bonnefous, op. cit., p. 279.

  
20
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 372, Delbos to Corbin, 7, 8 p.m., and most of all no 375, Delbos to François-Poncet, 10:15 p.m.

  
21
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 378, 11 March, 11:45 p.m., received 12 March, 1:45 a.m.

  
22
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 384, 12 March 1938.

  
23
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, nos. 385 and 386, Puaux, 12 March. On the final days of Austria, Puaux, op. cit., can be completed with Chauvel, op. cit., Vol. l, pp. 11–39.

  
24
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 403, 12 March 1938.

  
25
.
    
See the collection
Léon Blum chef de gouvernement
and in particular Jeanneney, Jean-Marcel, “La politique économique de Léon Blum” mostly p. 233 sq., and Mendès-France, Pierre, “La politique économique du gouvernment Léon Blum,” p. 233. He insists on the fact that Boris converted Blum to some of Keynes’ ideas.

  
26
.
    
He writes this in
Entre-deux-guerres
, op. cit., III, p. 87.

  
27
.
    
Transcript in
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 446.

  
28
.
    
See the great extension of thirty-six divisions and the big increase in tanks as reported by General Renondeau,
DDF
, 2, VII, no. 186, Berlin, 3 November 1937 (from SHA, D.820/AM).

  
29
.
    
See
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 447, Transcript of the Superior Army Council, chaired by Daladier.

  
30
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 462, Note from the general chief of staff of national Defense and of the Army 16 March 1938.

  
31
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 432, 14 March, and no. 445, 15 March (a less complete text in Gamelin,
Servir
, III, p. 8).

  
32
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 30, Corbin, 23 March 1938.

  
33
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 32, Communications from the British embassy, 23 March 1938.

  
34
.
    
Ibid. Regarding France’s lowering image in Great Britain, that Corbin felt, see
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 416, Corbin, 13 March, and no. 481, Personal letter from Roger Cambon to Massigli, 17 March 1938.

  
35
.
    
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 481,
La Croix
, 14 March 1938. See n. p. 786, Paul-Boncour, op. cit., III, p. 83.

  
36
.
    
See the hostile reaction from Roger Cambon,
DDF
, 2, VIII, no. 481, 17 March 1938.

  
37
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 112, Department Note of 5 April 1938, Paul-Boncour, op. cit., III, p. 93.

  
38
.
    
Paul-Boncour, op. cit., III, p. 72.

  
39
.
    
Ibid., pp. 89–92.
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 64, François-Poncet, 28 March; no. 97, Blondel, 1 April 1938. Transcript by Paul-Boncour of a conversation with Phipps, VIII, no. 449, 16 March 1938.

  
40
.
    
Among very many documents see above all
DDF
, 2, IX.