Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France replies to a secret note from Germany, offering to cut her army (607,000 men) during the next few-years and make a 50% reduction in aircraft, providing other nations do likewise...
...Germany replies to the French note, rejecting the French offer and demanding immediate disarmament from France. Deadlock...
April 16. Germany sends a note to Britain demanding the right to an air force of short-range planes (excluding bombers) not to exceed 30% of the combined air forces of Germany's neighbors, or 50% of the French air force (2,286 planes) at once, and full air equality with Germany's neighbors to begin after five years. To the world's alarm, Germany's 1934 budget adds some 40% to her army appropriation, triples the 1933 outlay for air defenses - an increase of 352,000,000 marks...
April 19. France, aroused by the figures in Germany's new budget sends a last stinging note to the British Government...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...