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...Hungary's claims on Rumania were considered in any plan to change the Balkan status quo. The Italian press proceeded to play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift the war to the Balkans and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet hurried, home to Paris to confer with his Government. Still the balance of power in Europe seemed to be held by Mussolini...
...diplomatic ace of France, scholarly but dapper and cosmopolitan André François-Poncet, who was once professor of German at the École Normale, later French Ambassador to Nazi Germany and now to Fascist Italy, last week hurried from Paris to Rome. On him were the eyes of the chancelleries of Europe. He was said to carry to Benito Mussolini from Edouard Daladier a generous basis for adjustment of the outstanding claims of Italy against France-claims which just 13 months ago were voiced in the Italian Chamber with raucous shouts of "Tunisia! Corsica! Nice!" (TIME...
During this hubbub the French Ambassador remained grimly seated in the Diplomatic Gallery, and afterward he strongly remonstrated with Count Ciano; but all the same, secret negotiations began. Last week M. François-Poncet was back from Paris with these reputed offers: 1) Djibouti, the French Red Sea terminus of Italian Ethiopia's only railway, to be leased to Italy for 90 years; 2) Italy to be allowed to purchase an increased share in the closely held stock of the Suez Canal Co. to insure lower rates for Italian shipping through the Canal, main water route to Ethiopia...
...with which he may help Turkey or Rumania as he once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. André François-Poncet was preparing the ground with the horse-trading Duce for a more or less secret Allied understanding with Italy...
...indignantly denied. Nevertheless, last week's pressures by Britain and France were in precisely that direction, and they were truly great pressures. Count Ciano's Foreign Office became almost the full-time habitat of British Ambassador Sir Percy Loraine and French Ambassador André François-Poncet...