Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wafts across Stresa's azure lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told Chamberlain that he could...
...this point Mussolini & Flandin, feeling the British "explorations" had evidently not covered the ground, urged that Britain's Berlin Ambassador at once ask Germany their question. When this was done, the answer of Realmleader Hitler was found to be not "Nein," as Sir John had expected...
...Wreck. This meant that European diplomacy could set off again on its scrap-of-paper strewn hunt for the pact to end pacts. With such proceedings, Dictator Mussolini has small sympathy, but he and French Premier Flandin preferred to wind up the Stresa Conference handsomely and save everything possible from the wreck...
Since the Stresa Conference decided that Germany has been naughty but is not to be spanked (see p. 19), new French Premier Flandin was in a quandary when the League Council met this week. France could scarcely get back to birch-talk after Stresa, but she could and did lay on the Council table a stinging memorandum back-dated "Paris, April 9." She had hoped Britain would be willing, as Italy was, to send this stinger to the League with the full weight of Stresa's Big Three. Instead, France, with only the moral support of expressed British...