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Seeing that Reynaud, after more than a week of premiership, appeared to offer only the same old Sitzkrieg, many Frenchmen could not see why Daladier should not be recalled to re-form his Cabinet, again without Socialists, and get on with the unexciting policy urged by nearly all military experts: to strangle the Germans until in desperation they begin to use their stored materials in some sort of action. There were even rumors that in case Parliament got out of hand President Lebrun might call Marshal Petain, now French Ambassador in Madrid, to form a Cabinet. In every recent French...
...last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter -taken in M. Reynaud's office on the occasion of Mr. Welles's visit to Paris, subsequently published on the cover of UIllustration...
Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...Office spokesman accused Under Secretary Welles of "extremely bad taste." It was seriously asked whether the U. S. was helping to plot the dismemberment or just listening to Allies' plans. Italian newspapers became hysterical over Italy's losses. Italian Ambassador to Paris Raffaele Guariglia called on M. Reynaud for an explanation. No one in Germany or Italy paid any attention to Mr. Welles's quiet comment on the whole thing: "Fantastic nonsense. ... I never even looked at any map which may have been in M. Reynaud's office...
...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...