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Back in Paris from a campaign tour of his home constituency of Auxerre-Avallon, France's Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin reacted sharply to the German proposals. He called in to the Foreign Office the French Ambassadors at Berlin, London, Rome and Brussels, suggested to the Locarno Powers a new conference at Brussels this week to crack down once more on Germany...
...hastily popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing he would have been well within France's juridical rights. Instead, towering M. Flandin rose...
Finally the officially injured Locarno Powers (Britain, France, Italy and Belgium) adopted and sent to the guilty State proposals which M. Flandin said were the minimum France could accept and which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said were submitted to evoke from Germany either acceptance or counter proposals. Exhausted Mr. Eden then took a nap in the Foreign Office, after which he motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain...
Meanwhile M. Flandin had bustled to Paris for the weekend. The Chamber of Deputies was about to adjourn for French general elections on April 26 and May 3. Stuffy Premier Albert Sarraut looked to his Foreign Minister to make a speech Frenchmen would like to hear. Applause rang out when M. Flandin told the Chamber that Italy was supporting France with the "frankest friendship" in London...
...called "Stresa Front" was cracked by Britain's opposition to Italy's war in Ethiopia. Cried M. Flandin amid fresh cheers: "I am seeking to bring about simultaneous suspension of hostilities in Ethiopia and of sanctions against Italy...