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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...
...sending troops into the Rhineland early in March Germany violated the treaties of (1 London and St. Germain, 2 Lausanne and Stresa, 3 Vienna and Berlin, 4 Locarno and Versailles, S Paris and Geneva...
What Adolf Hitler will eventually do to get all he wants for Germany is today Europe's most momentous secret. In March the Realmleader sent German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland and a fine-sounding set of peace proposals to Britain (TIME, April 13, et ante). It occurred to Britain's 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...
...single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation. They had struck out Captain Eden's question about Hitler's intentions regarding the refortification of the Rhineland. Most important of all, they had struck out every mention of Hitler's demand for "colonial equality of rights" lest the answer be too disagreeable for British public opinion...
...German Press chorused that der Führer had already told the world everything that Mr. Eden wanted to know. The German Foreign Office sat down to take as long as it dared to frame an answer, figuring that the mere passage of time would deflate the so-called Rhineland crisis...