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...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...
...earnest young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that perhaps the best way to find out what Adolf Hitler was thinking was to ask him. He wrote down a list of questions to which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne Flandin for additions, which the French Foreign Minister cheerfully supplied. Mr. Eden last month took his completed catechism to the British Cabinet where Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was delighted by its British candor and self-righteousness. Less delighted were Cabinet members whose idea of how to surprise a man's secrets...
...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...
...Muscovite one, and Frenchmen can wave the tricolor, forgetting the apparent anomoly of the white and the blue on the banner. It has long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic...