Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which she wants no more than Germany wants hers. That shrewd Colonel Beck was not putting all his diplomatic eggs in the Italian basket, however, was evident from his announcement that he would go this month to London, where he will meet, besides British statesmen, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. At the same time there was talk of a $50,000,000 British commercial loan to Poland. A diplomat of less cunning-like, for instance, Eduard Benes, who put all Czechoslovakia's eggs in the democracies' basket and got them smashed-would long ago have steered his country...
...Myron Herrick, did his verbal best at telling the dictatorial enemies of France where to get off. At a George Washington's Birthday dinner at the American Club in Paris, attended by the Duke of Windsor and such top-notch French bigwigs as Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin, Mr. Bullitt replied to German and Italian press charges that the U. S. was trying to start a war. With intentional and significant emphasis the Ambassador said: "We are not in the habit of starting wars...
...arrangement seemed so near to going through that Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet announced that Jules Henry, French Ambassador to Spain, would not return to Loyalist territory. Senator Léon Bérard, who has already been to Rebel Spain on one "unofficial" mission, returned to Burgos, this time for "official" negotiations. Sir Robert Hodgson, British Agent to Rebel Spain, began long talks with Count Francisco Gómez Jordana, Rebel Foreign Minister...
Later on, M. Bonnet set out to sabotage the Daladier fight talk. In an "off-the-record" lecture to nine French political reporters, some well-known in Paris as tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...
Although French newspapers only hinted at the gist of M. Bonnet's talk, British newsorgans picked up the lecture and were soon printing the details in full. British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps fortnight ago called on M. Daladier for an explanation. Angered, M. Daladier called in Foreign Minister Bonnet, gave him a talking to, warned him that another such "blunder" would cost him his job. Then came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a sonorous denial that the original Bonnet interview had ever taken place, which few, and least of all the foreign embassies, believed...