Foreign Policies of Great Powers: The Foreign Policy of France from 1914-1945

by Nere, J.

• ISBN13: 9780415266802
• ISBN10: 0415266807
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
French Diplomacy in the War of 1914-18	1	(10)
Introduction	1	(2)
Winning the War	3	(3)
Peace Feelers and War Aims	6	(3)
The Armistice	9	(2)
The Peace Settlement	11	(15)
A Pyrrhic Victory	11	(1)
The Quest for Security	12	(4)
Alsace-Lorraine and the Saar	16	(2)
The Principle of Reparations	18	(3)
Central and Eastern Europe	21	(2)
The League of Nations	23	(1)
Conclusion	24	(2)
From Versailles to the Ruhr	26	(21)
The Disappearance of the Anglo-American Guarantee	26	(2)
The Efforts to Recover the Anglo-American Guarantee	28	(3)
The Difficulties of Carrying Out the Treaty of Versailles	31	(7)
The Eastern Alliances'	38	(7)
Retreat in the Middle East	45	(2)
The Occupation of the Ruhr, and the Dawes Plan	47	(16)
The Preliminaries	47	(5)
The Entry into the Ruhr and the `Passive Resistance'	52	(3)
Poincare Faced with the German Chaos	55	(1)
The Dawes Plan	56	(4)
Central Europe during the Ruhr Crisis	60	(3)
The Early Days of the Cartel des Gauches	63	(6)
The Implementation of the Dames Plan	64	(2)
In Quest of Security	66	(3)
The Briand Era	69	(24)
The Locarno Treaties and Germany's Entry into the League of Nations	71	(5)
Thoiry and the Young Plan	76	(9)
The Briand Kellogg Pact	85	(2)
The Proposal for European Unity	87	(2)
The Early Evacuation of the Rhineland, and the Renewal of the German Threat	89	(2)
Conclusion	91	(2)
The Problem of National Defence after the Evacuation of the Rhineland	93	(7)
The World Economic Crisis and its Repercussions on the Foreign Policy of France	100	(17)
The End of Reparations: the Hoover Moratorium and the Lausanne Conference	102	(5)
The Economic Conference at Stresa (September 1932)	107	(2)
The End of the Interallied Debts, and the London Conference	109	(8)
The Disarmament Conference and the Rearming of Germany	117	(15)
The Tardieu Plan and Germany's First Sortie	119	(1)
The Herriot-Paul Boncour `Constructive Plan'	120	(4)
Disintegration of the French `Constructive Plan'	124	(2)
The French Plan of the Two Periods and the Resignation of Germany from the League of Nations	126	(2)
The Note of 17 April 1934	128	(2)
German Rearmament and French Disarmament	130	(2)
The Franco-Italian Rapprochement and the Attempt to Consolidate Central Europe	132	(23)
The Franco-Italian Affair	132	(2)
Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginning of 1933	134	(3)
The de Jouvenel Mission and the Four-Power Pact	137	(4)
The Proposal for an Association of The Peoples of Central Europe	141	(8)
The Austrian Crises of 1934 and Italian Policy	149	(2)
The Rome Agreements (January 1935)	151	(1)
The `Stresa Front'	152	(3)
The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance	155	(18)
The Non-Aggression Pact of November 1932	156	(4)
The Turning-Point of 1933	160	(5)
Barthou's Venture	165	(4)
The Policy of Laval and the Conclusion of the Mutual Assistance Pact	169	(4)
The Abyssinia Conflict and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland	173	(22)
The Origins of the Abyssinia Conflict	173	(2)
The Sanctions	175	(5)
A New Attempt at Conciliation: the Laval-Hoare Plan	180	(4)
Remilitarization of the Rhineland	184	(8)
The Last Attempt at a Rapprochement with Italy	192	(3)
The Foreign Policy of the Popular Front	195	(26)
General Reflections	195	(1)
Franco-British Relations and the Negotiation for a `New Locarno'	196	(4)
The Tripartite Monetary Agreement and its Political Significance	200	(2)
The Belgian Defection	202	(3)
Franco-German Relations: the Schacht Mission	205	(3)
Franco-Soviet Relations	208	(3)
Break-Up of the Eastern Alliances	211	(3)
The War in Spain: Non-Intervention and Attempt at Mediation	214	(7)
Munich	221	(12)
The Calm before The Storm	221	(1)
The Annexation of Austria	221	(1)
The Preliminaries of the Czech Affair	222	(3)
Britain Appears on the Scene	225	(1)
The September Crisis	226	(4)
The Consequences of Munich	230	(3)
The Beginning of the War	233	(13)
The Italian Claims	233	(1)
The Prague Coup	234	(1)
The Policy of Guarantees	235	(1)
Negotiations with The USSR	236	(3)
The Last Hesitations and The Declaration of War	239	(3)
The `Phoney War'	242	(4)
Woe to the Vanquished	246	(14)
Military Disaster and Political Disaster	246	(2)
The Impotence of the Vichy Regime	248	(3)
The Impotence of Free France	251	(9)
Conclusion	260	(2)
Appendix: Documents	262	(1)
Introduction	262	(1)
List of Documents	262	(3)
Documents	265	(89)
Select Bibliography	354	(4)
Index	358