Word: bonneted
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...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...
...Seven weeks later, before M. Bonnet made a speech in the Chamber of Deputies reaffirming the French-Polish alliance, he first called in German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to explain. The Ambassador reported to Berlin...
...Bonnet read aloud several passages from his speech, declaring some were meant for internal consumption and at the same time mentioning France's absolute adherence to her present policy on Eastern Europe...