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...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...
Newsmen who cover Premier Edouard Daladier's office have long known that the Premier and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georges Bonnet, are not on the best of political terms. A story which gave an interesting line on each came out of Paris last week. Fundamental difference between the two is that M. Bonnet is an ardent appeaser of dictators, and dreams of being the central figure in a great general European "settlement," while M. Daladier has decided, at least temporarily, to yield no more to Germany and Italy...
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...
...Paris, just a few hours later, Premier Daladier wound up in the Chamber of Deputies a long foreign policy debate which had hinged on the Spanish problem. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet had warned that a "question of force" might soon arise. M. Daladier said that events were "racing toward a climax," that the "hour of peril" was approaching. But the debate showed such a fatal division of opinion on exactly what constituted a peril that France seemed paralyzed...