Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meanwhile had the French Chargé d'Affaires in Rome sign a treaty re-establishing interrupted Italo-French credit relations, then cast about for the right Frenchman to send as Ambassador to the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. This would mean recognition by France of the Empire carved out by Il Duce...
Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet, great as their misgivings about the Führer and Il Duce are, were not wasting anytime last week getting in on something similar to the Chamberlain-Mussolini Deal (see p. 16). The French Embassy in Rome, journalists learned in Paris, will attempt to get a Daladier-Mussolini Deal along these lines: 1) Italy and France would agree to halt radio propaganda against each other now being broadcast to the peoples of the Near East and North Africa; 2) the Addis...
...Britain's acknowledgement that Italy has certain rights in respect to Palestine, would agree that Italy also has certain rights in respect to Syria, a French mandate. As a preliminary to these far-reaching plans, the Quai d'Orsay this week announced that Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet had "gladly" accepted the British invitation to confer on the matter in London on April...
...select Paris restaurant Lapérouse, the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, dynamic Liberal elder statesman and great British friend of France, arrived carrying two large military maps. He lunched and conferred, it came out last week, with this curious assortment of Right and Centre French politicians : Georges Bonnet, until recently Finance Minister and before that Ambassador at Washington; Paul Reynaud, also a former Finance Minister and frequently mentioned as a future Rightist Premier; Georges Mandel, the famed "Tiger Cub" disciple of the late Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau; and Jean Ybarnegaray, a lieutenant of Fascist Colonel Count Frangois de La Rocque...
Since France's monetary fears were on a par with her military fears, M. Georges Bonnet (called last year from his post as Ambassador at Washington to become Finance Minister) was promoted to be Minister of State and Financial Coordinator. He neatly defined his new job: "It has been said that in a neighboring country [Germany] it became necessary to choose between butter and cannon. Cannon were chosen. Here in France we want both butter and cannon. It is a difficult task...