Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dispatches finally reported "victory for Mr. Eden" in getting Flandin and van Zeeland to agree that Germany should be invited to send a German delegation this week to London. This implied a return to the week's early British wish to hatch new accords with egg-breaking Germany. Simultaneously going forward in London last week were Eden-Flandin conversations of a most discreet character. An indiscreet French underling even said. "Of course it will not be necessary to bring sanctions to bear on Germany if we can get something better...
...obfuscated Squire Baldwin by the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, tenacious Sir Robert Vansittart, who nearly enabled his chief, Sir Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain...
Speaking in London for the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia) Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu urged immediate and drastic League Sanctions. These had not yet been asked by the Belgians and the French, for M. Flandin had based his whole policy last week on patience, asking his British friends to read what they had signed. As Squire Baldwin still hesitated and His Majesty's Government appeared to desire that France should join in paying Adolf Hitler's price for sending a delegation to London, the French Foreign Minister finally said...
...communications from Berlin," continued M. Flandin, "betray a condition of mind that wishes to impose a kind of moral direction of affairs on the rest of Europe. It now remains to be seen whether other nations will agree to be morally directed in this...
This week French spokesmen stubbornly maintained that their Foreign Minister's stand remained unchanged. But after high-pressure conferences with M. Flandin. Captain Eden had been able to offer Realmleader Hitler "assurances" concerning the discussion of his peace proposals which brought from Berlin prompt notice that a German delegation would be in London within the week...