France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939 (96 page)

  
41
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 129, Personal letter from Massigli to Blondel, 7 April 1938.

  
42
.
    
Entre-deux-guerres
, op. cit., III, pp. 101–103.

  
43
.
    
Entre-deux-guerres
, op. cit., III, pp. 103–104.

  
44
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 238.

  
45
.
    
Czechoslovak historian Anton Snejdarek, associate professor at the Sorbonne, confirmed to me that it was in July that Beneš understood that he could no longer count on France.

  
46
.
    
On 25 June Beneš and Lacroix had a private lunch. Beneš was sad and tired. “He had reached the point of questioning whether France now viewed Czechoslovakia as a burden.”
DDF
, 2, X, no. 96, 26 June 1939.

  
47
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 242, Lacroix, 21 July 1938.

  
48
.
    
Transcript in
DDF
, no. 258, Corbin, 29 April. Corbin had this very detailed summary written. See mostly pp. 576–586.

  
49
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 256, Note from M. Léon Noël. Situation in Czecholsovakia, end of April 1938. See Noël,
L’agression allemande
…., op. cit., pp. 198–202.

  
50
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 281, Bonnet to Lacroix, 5 May 1938.

  
51
.
    
DDF, 2, IX, no. 378, Lacroix, 20 May 1938, 12:12 p.m. The studies of this crisis—see in
Slavonic and East European Review
, articles by Wallace, W.V., June 1963; Watt, D.C., of July 1966 with a response by Wallace; the booklet by Braddick, Henderson, R., “Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Grand Alliance in the May crisis, 1938.”

  
52
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 380, Renondeau, 20 May 1938.

  
53
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 381, François-Poncet, 20 May 1938, 7 p.m.

  
54
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 382, François-Poncet, 20 May 1938, 7 p.m.

  
55
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 386, 20 May 1938.

  
56
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 392, 21 May 1938, 2:30 p.m.

  
57
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 402, Bonnet to Lacroix, 21 May 1938, 10:30 p.m.

  
58
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 407, Renondeau, and no. 410, François-Poncet, 22 May 1940. See also no. 426, François-Poncet, 23 May; no. 427, Rewnondeau, 23 May, etc.

  
59
.
    
Bonnet did not meet with German Ambassador von Welczeck between 30 April and 27 May. It appears he met with Daladier in between. See
DDF
, 2, X, no. 458, Note from the Minister, 27 May 1938.

  
60
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 419, Communication from the embassy of Great Britain, 22 May 1938.

  
61
.
    
Œuvre
, 22 May 1938, quoted by *Vallette, G. and Bouillon, J.
Munich 1938
, p. 59. See also
Œuvre
du 23 May, where Geneviève Tabouis got mixed up.

  
62
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 419, 22 May 1938.

  
63
.
    
See mostly
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 495, Noël, 31 May 1938.

  
64
.
    
See mostly
DDF
, 2 IX, no. 228, Note from the Department, 24 April 1938. Bonnet met with Litvinov on 12 May in Geneva, and no. 492, Coulondre, 31 May 1938.

  
65
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 183, Bonnet to Blondel, 15 April 1938.

  
66
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 194, Blondel, 16 April 1938.

  
67
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 217, Blondel, 22 April 1938.

  
68
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, 252, Mercier, Tirana, 28 April 1938.

  
69
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 261, Blondel, 1 May 1938.

  
70
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 339, Blondel, 14 May 1938.

  
71
.
    
DDF
, 2, IX, no. 486, Bonnet to Lacroix, 31 May 1938; no. 505, Bonnet to London, Prague, 2 June 1938. See no. 535, Communication from the Department to the Czechoslovak legation, 9 June 1938.

  
72
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 237, 20 July 1938.

  
73
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 325, 3 August 1938.

  
74
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 413, Bonnet to Lacroix, 19 August 1938.

  
75
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 507, Communication from the embassy of Great Britain. Corbin complained on 6 September that Lacroix was not being kept regularly informed of the initiatives taken by his British colleague Newton. See DDF, 2, IX, no. 15, 6 September 1938.

  
76
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 331, Lacroix, 5 August 1938.

  
77
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 369, Lacroix, 12 August 1938.

  
78
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 421, 20 August 1938. In DDF, 2, X, Telegrams from Lacroix. See also no. 324, 3 August no. 405, 18 August, and no. 517, Note from the Minister, 31 August.

  
79
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 200, Montbas, chargé d’affaires, Berlin, 13 July 1977; see no. 2.

  
80
.
    
See the summary of 18 August in
DDF
, 2, X, no. 412.

  
81
.
    
See among others,
DDF
, 2, X, no. 445, 24 August 1938.

  
82
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 401, François-Poncet, 18 August.

  
83
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 444, Transcript by Vuillemin, 23 August 1938.

  
84
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 537, Transcript of General Vuillemin’s mission, 2 September 1938.

  
85
.
    
Stehlin, op. cit., p. 92.

  
86
.
    
Regarding Czechoslovak internal policy that is not part of our subject, see the harsh article by *Hajek, M. and Novotan, J.J., “La politique et l’armée de la Tchecoslovaquie devant la crise de Munich,” RHDGM, October 1963, pp. 1–20.

  
87
.
    
See the harsh opinion of François-Poncet regarding his British colleague Nevile Henderson, DDF, 2, X, no. 246, 21 July 1938. See also no. 336, Lacroix, 7 August and no. 338, Lacroix, 8 August 1938.

  
88
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 245, 21 July 1938.

  
89
.
    
DDF
, 2, X, no. 195, 12 July 1938.

  
90
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 18, 6 September 1938.

  
91
.
    
Bonnet,
De Washington au Quai d’Orsay
, p. 209, Bullitt, op. cit., pp. 284–285.

  
92
.
    
Bullitt, op. cit., p. 282.

  
93
.
    
Account by Scapini in
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 28, 6 September 1938.

  
94
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 22, François-Poncet, 6 September 1938.

  
95
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 33, Bonnet to Corbin.

  
96
.
    
ADAP
, D. II, no. 431.

  
97
.
    
CEP
, IX, pp. 2601–2602.

  
98
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 34, telephone conversation, 7 September 1938, 8:20 p.m. (Bonnet Papers.)

  
99
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 94, 11 September 1938.

100
.
    
DBFP
, 3, II, no. 834. See also
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 124. Telegram from Halifax, 12 September 1938. Transcript from Corbin,
DDF
, 2, XI, nos. 66 and 67, 9 September 1938.

101
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 88, Corbin, 11 September 1938.

102
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 125, Note from the Minister, 13 September 1938.

103
.
    
DBFP
, 3, II, no. 807.

104
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 122, 13 September, transmitted at 9 p.m.

105
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 130, telephone communication from the embassy of Great Britain, 14 September 1938.

106
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 133, Corbin, 14 September 1938, 11:15 a.m.

107
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 152, Bonnet to Corbin, 15 September 1938. See also no. 168, conversation between Charles Saint, deputy head of Bonnet’s cabinet and British first secretary Michael Wright, 15 September 1938.

108
.
    
Note from Massigli (who met with Osusky), 15 September 1938.
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 150, Lacroix, 15 September, and no. 166.

109
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 171, François-Poncet, 15 September 1938.

110
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 180, Lacroix, 17 September 1938.

111
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 192, instructions from Beneš to Neczas, 17 September (Daladier Papers FNSP).

112
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 208, General Faucher to Daladier, 18 September, 5:30 p.m. and no. 209, Bonnet to Lacroix, 18 September, 8:10 p.m.

113
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 186, François-Poncet, 17 September, 9:30 a.m.; no 188, Corbin, 17 September, received at midnight.

114
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 212, summary of the Franco-British conversations. See also
DBFP
, 3, II, no. 928. The French summary is twenty-four pages long.

115
.
    
His text in
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 213, Bonnet to MAE, 19 September 1938, 3:15 a.m.

116
.
    
See for example, in July, Reynaud, Paul,
La France a sauvé l’Europe
, I, pp. 557–558.

117
.
    
Werth, op. cit., pp. 218–220.

118
.
    
Monzie,
Ci-devant
, p. 29.

119
.
    
Ibid., p. 14.

120
.
    
Ibid., p. 31.
Carnets secrets de Jean Zay
, pp. 3–7.

121
.
    
Ibid., p. 4.

122
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 222, 19 September 1938. Transcript of an Osusky-Bonnet conversation (Bonnet Papers). Another summary by Bonnet (in the same number) from the Daladier papers and drafted by Bonnet is shorter; Bonnet offered Osusky the advice to accept the Franco-British plan.

123
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 217, Lacroix, 19 September 1938 (by wire).

124
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 223, Notes by the political director, 19 September 1938.

125
.
    
DDF
, 2, XI, no. 225, Note from the Minister, 20 September 1938, 1:30 p.m. (see also
DBFP
, 3, II, no. 967).