Word: bonneted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen French governments 50-year-old Georges Bonnet has held such Cabinet posts as Minister of Pensions, Commerce, Public Works, Posts & Telegraph, Finance. He was also once sent as French Ambassador to Washington, where he was scheduled to talk about a compromise on the defaulted French war debt to the U. S. Nothing ever came of that, and social Washington remembered him best for his pretty, English-speaking wife Odette, whom wags called "Oh, debt!" M. Bonnet is tall, parrot-nosed, looks like Cinemactor Ben Turpin...
...Bonnet's role in the negotiations that led to the historic Munich Pact pleased the British Government, the French industrialists, who are among his chief supporters, and the Nazis, but displeased anti-appeasers everywhere. He talked big about France keeping her alliances, but acted differently. He held up a crucial message from President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia to Premier Daladier. In forwarding to the British Cabinet a French Army resume he was said to have censored it so that the weaknesses and not the strength of the French Army were emphasized...
...Bonnet diplomatic chef-d'oeuvre was a French-German treaty of "friendship" signed by him and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Paris in late 1938. They drank a toast together during the festivities. The treaty "froze" the French-German border, provided for consultation between the two powers in case of dispute...
...Bonnet-Ribbentrop conversations were not made public at the time, but last week the Reich not only accused Foreign Minister Bonnet of double-crossing Germany but intimated that he had been quite willing to mislead his own Parliament...
...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...