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...Pierre Etienne Flandin...
Last week, too, Editor Williams added a few new twists to the recurrent yarn from France of a plot to overthrow the Daladier Government and establish separate peace with Germany. Alleged ring leaders: shelved Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, now Minister of Justice; and ex-Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Deputy, capitalist spokesman and appeasement cheerleader...
Editor Williams added to his bubbling French plot the accusation that Flandin has been in communication with Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, that their liaison man is one Fernand de Brinon, Nazi-favored French journalist, that de Brinon's contact man in Germany is Otto Abetz, pre-war chief of Nazi intelligence work in France...
...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...