Word: flandin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be more dangerous than helpful. Pierre Etienne Flandin, who wired congratulations to Adolf Hitler last autumn after Munich, called for "mediation" with Germany...
Opposed to the pro-intervention speakers was onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who has made no secret of his fondness for Herr Hitler. He moralized: "The French Government should be able to say to the Spanish people, once the war is ended, 'I have no Spanish blood on my hands...
...French Foreign Minister who represented France at the London and Geneva parleys on the Rhineland problem was (1 Albert Lebrun, 2 Pierre Laval, 3 Pierre Etienne Flandin, 4 Pierre Cot, 5 Eduard Daladier...
...screaming case of jitters. Bogey Man No. 1 was Benito Mussolini who until last week France had always assumed would be "reasonable." Highly unreasonable to Paris sounded the Italian's speech proposing to take care of Ethiopia all by himself. Therefore French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin made haste to post off to Rome the sharpest note he had yet sent Benito Mussolini...
...reminded Italy of the 1906 treaty guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...