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117
.
    
La “air mission,” planned by Pierre Cot, was approved on 23 October par Paul-Boncour, DDF, 1, IV, no. 354, 23 October 1933.

118
.
    
DDF, 1, V, note from the subsection for commercial relations, 9 January 1934.

119
.
    
DDF, 1, IV, no. 251, 27 September 1933. See. Scott, op. cit., chap. VII, pp. 130–152.

120
.
    
DDF, 1, V, note from the Department, 4 January 1934.

121
.
    
Sauvy, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 564.

122
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 125, 20 December 1932.

123
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 161, 5 January 1933.

124
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 185, Claudel, 11 January 1933.

125
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 221, 21 January 1933. See also the visit paid by Mönick to Walter E. Edge U.S. ambassador to Paris, ibid., no. 232. Note of 24 January 1933 from the political directorate on the debt situation and comments by Jacques Rueff regarding the meager chances of success of those negotiations. Ibid., no. 271, Rueff to Georges Bonnet, Minister of Finance, 7 February 1933.

126
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 256, Paul-Boncour to Claudel, 3 February 1933.

127
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 315, Paul-Boncour to Claudel, 17 February 1933.

128
.
    
DDF, 1, II, nos. 317 and 318, Claudel, 18 February 1933.

129
.
    
DDF, 1, II, no. 326. Note from the deputy director of commercial affairs, 20 February 1933. See also no. 397. Note from Rist and Parmentier regarding the meetings of experts on 9 and 20 January, 1933 that mentions “the unanimous good will welcoming the project of establishing a common monetary fund.”

130
.
    
See Herriot,
Jadis
, Vol. II, pp. 362, 364.

131
.
    
Jadis
, Vol. II, p. 366. See also DDF, 1, III, no 195, Herriot to Paul-Boncour, 27 April 1933. Regarding the very good personal relationship between Roosevelt and Herriot, see *Mönick, Emmanuel,
Pour mémoire
, 1970, pp. 140–143.

132
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 180, Paul-Boncour (distribution memo), 25 April 1933.

133
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 341, Laboulaye, 1 June 1933.

134
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 417, Coulondre, London, 22 June 1933.

135
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 436, Bonnet to Paul-Boncour, 30 June 1933.

136
.
    
In a communication to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of January 1935.

137
.
    
DDF, 1, IV, no. 169, Paul-Boncour to François-Poncet, 2 September 1933.

Chapter III

T
HE
B
ARTHOU
E
RA

    
1
.
    
See the recollections of Lucien Lamoureux in Bonnefous, op. cit., Vol. V, p. 217. See also p. 214.

    
2
.
    
10 February 1934.

    
3
.
    
Edited by his friend Georges Lamiraut.

    
4
.
    
There is no good biography of Barthou. Only *Bertaut, Jules,
Louis Barthou
, Paris, no date, 1918; *Aubert, D.,
Louis Barthou
, Paris, 1935; *Herzog, Wilhelm,
Barthou
, Zurich, 1938.

    
5
.
    
*Barthou, Louis,
Le Politique
, Paris, 1933, see pp. 15–16. (See in the same series *Cambon, Jules,
Le Diplomate
.)

    
6
.
    
Recollection by Mrs. Gaston Doumergue, quoted by Bonnefous, Édouard, op. cit., Vol. V, pp. 214–215.

    
7
.
    
See the pamphlet by *Daudet, Léon,
Le garde des Sceaux Louis Barthou
, Paris, 1930.

    
8
.
    
See *Wormser, Georges,
La présidence de Poincaré
, 1976.

    
9
.
    
*Donnay, Maurice,
Discours prononcés…pour la réception de M. Louis Barthou
(at the Académie française, 6 February 1919), Paris 1919.

  
10
.
    
JODP, Chambre, 2 September 1933.

  
11
.
    
*Barthou, Louis,
Promenades autour de ma vie. Lettres de La Montagne
, Paris 1933, see p. 27.

  
12
.
    
Paul-Boncour, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 370.

  
13
.
    
*Hymans, Paul,
Mémoires
, 1958, Vol. II, p. 682.

  
14
.
    
DDF, 1 V, no. 463, 5 March 1934. See also Herzog,
Barthou
, pp. 94–95.

  
15
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 283, 4 June 1934.

  
16
.
    
Op. cit., Vol. II, p. 357.

  
17
.
    
MAE. Communiqué from the Minister’s Cabinet, 11 July 1934. Transcript of the Franco-British meeting in London, 9–10 July 1934.

  
18
.
    
JODP, Chambre, 25 March 1920, pp. 711–718.

  
19
.
    
Chap. VII.

  
20
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 34, 20 November 1933.

  
21
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 47, François-Poncet, 23 November 1933.

  
22
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 66, Paul-Boncour to Corbin.

  
23
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 73, Paul-Boncour to Corbin, 3 December 1933.

  
24
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 76, Viénot to Massigli, 3 December 1933.

  
25
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 201, 6 January 1934.

  
26
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 411, Pétain to Barthou, 20 February 1934. See also the important note from Army High Command.

  
27
.
    
See the collection
Négociations relatives à la reduction et à la limitation des armements
…14 October 1933–17 April 1934.

  
28
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 296, Distribution memo from Daladier, 30 January 1934.

  
29
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 303, Note from the French Service at the League of Nations.

  
30
.
    
DDF, 1, III, no. 367, Note from the French Service at the League of Nations, 31 January 1934.

  
31
.
    
DDF, 1 III, no. 376, Note from the French Service at the League of Nations, 12 February 1934, and DDF, 1, III, no. 391, 15 February 1934.

  
32
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 465, Notes concerning disarmament.

  
33
.
    
DDF, 1, V, ibid.

  
34
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 477, Note from the Vice-President of the Superior War Council, 8 March 1934.

  
35
.
    
Weygand explained his struggle against the compromise in
Mémoires
, Vol. II,
Mirages et réalités
, pp. 417–424. His account is confirmed in the archives.

  
36
.
    
François-Poncet, André,
Souvenirs d’une ambassade à Berlin
, 1946, pp. 175–176.

  
37
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 93, Transcript of the meeting of 14 April 1934 (pp. 220–237).

  
38
.
    
Souvenirs d’une ambassade à Berlin
, p. 162 sq.

  
39
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 98, 16 April 1934.

  
40
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 97, 16 April 1934.

  
41
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 104, 17 April 1934. See also no. 105, Note by the Minister regarding his conversation with Sir Ronald Campbell, where the government’s unanimity is mentioned “from Mr. Louis Marin to Messers. Marquet and Edouard Herriot.”

  
42
.
    
François-Poncet, op. cit., p. 179.

  
43
.
    
Eden, op. cit., p. 89, says that Barthou led Campbell to believe that he would have been placed in the minority. This appears to be completely mistaken.

  
44
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 254, Massigli to the ministry, Geneva, 30 May 1934.

  
45
.
    
Ibid., no. 268, François-Poncet, 1 June 1934.

  
46
.
    
Hymans, op. cit., p. 968 and 983.

  
47
.
    
DDF, 1, VI, no. 269, Massigli, Geneva, 1 June 1934.

  
48
.
    
DDF, 1, IV, no. 113, Chambrun.

  
49
.
    
Ibid.

  
50
.
    
Regarding Hungarian ambitions see *Zsigmond, L., “La politique extérieure de la Hongrie de 1933 to 1939”, RHDGM, no. 62, April 1966, p. 7–18; *Adam, Magda, “Les pays danubiens et Hitler (1933–1936)”, ibid. no.98, April 1975, pp. 1–26. Regarding Romanian policy *Giurescu, Dinu, “La diplomatie roumaine et le Pacte des Quatre,”
Revue roumaine d’histore
, 1969, 1, pp.77–102; *Deutsch, L., “The Foreign Policy of Romania and the dynamics of Peace (1932–1936),” ibid., 1966, 1, pp. 121–132; *Campus, Eliza, “Nicolae Titulescu et la politique pour le maintien de l’intégrité territoriale de la Roumanie,” ibid., 1966, 3, pp. 441–469. All these articles are based on the archives of the countries concerned.

  
51
.
    
DDF, 1, IV, no. 180, Chambrun, 5 September 1933.

  
52
.
    
Adam, quoted above, p. 10.

  
53
.
    
Campus, quoted article, pp. 450–451.

  
54
.
    
See DDF, 1, V, no. 13, Chambrun, 15 November 1933.

  
55
.
    
See his book, *Laroche, Jules,
La Pologne de Pilsudski, Souvenirs d’une Ambassade, 1926–1935
, 1953. “Mr. Beck takes on some mysterious airs,” as he mentions in his telegram of 17 July, DDF, 1, IV, no. 3.

  
56
.
    
*Noël, Léon,
L’agression allemande contre la Pologne
, 1946, p. 104, and his last book, *
La Pologne entre deux mondes
, Sorbonne, 1984.

  
57
.
    
Charles Bloch was able to prove that those rumors were baseless. See his article *Bloch, Charles “La place de la France dans les différents stades de la politique extériuere du troisième Reich (1933–1940),”
Les relations franco-allemandes
, pp. 19–31. See p. 19.

  
58
.
    
See the conversation between Belgian Minister Hymans and Paul-Boncour and Léger on 25 September 1933. Hymans, Paul,
Mémoires
, Vol. II, pp. 943–944. And that of the American diplomat Norman Davis with Paul-Boncour on September 19, DDF, 1, IV, no. 229, 19 September 1933.

  
59
.
    
François-Poncet, op. cit., p. 165.

  
60
.
    
DDF, 1, IV, Laroche, 2 November 1933. See also no 417, 10 November.

  
61
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 19, François-Poncet, 16 November 1933.

  
62
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 44, 22 November 1933.

  
63
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 282, Noël, 28 January 1934.

  
64
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 278, 27 January 1934.

  
65
.
    
DDF, 1, V, no. 288, Laroche 29 January. 1934.