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Last week, too, Editor Williams added a few new twists to the recurrent yarn from France of a plot to overthrow the Daladier Government and establish separate peace with Germany. Alleged ring leaders: shelved Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, now Minister of Justice; and ex-Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Deputy, capitalist spokesman and appeasement cheerleader...
...later, the French-German pact became moribund and M. Bonnet was "no longer master in his own house." The German summary...
...weeks later in Berlin, French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, apparently on orders of M. Bonnet, assured Herr Ribbentrop that "France will not undertake any political steps in Eastern Europe that would disturb Germany...
...Nevertheless Herr Ribbentrop directed the Count to protest, whereupon the Ambassador reported: "M. Bonnet said that in foreign political debates before the Chamber things were often said that obviously were meant only for internal consumption and did not have any further importance." M. Bonnet contended, wired the Ambassador to his chief, that when he "braved the opposition" to put across "justified German demands," he could scarcely be expected to "abdicate all along the line before the Chamber." "If I did so," the Foreign Minister was quoted as saying, "then the warmongers would gain the upper hand...
Long before that Premier Daladier had become his own Foreign Minister in all but name. Shortly after the war broke out Georges Bonnet was shelved to the unimportant Ministry of Justice...