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164. dutton, Neville Chamberlain, p. 93; McKercher, “Old diplomacy and
New,” p. 102; self, Chamberlain Diary Letters, vol. 4, p. 5; self, Neville Chamberlain,
pp. 271–72.
165. Birkenhead, Halifax, pp. 422–23.
166. ibid., pp. 418–20.
167. BdFa, series F, vol. 48, Part ii, p. 364. For more details on Halifax’s meet-
ing with Hitler, see schwoerer, “lord Halifax’s Visit.”
168. stacey, A Very Double Life, pp. 35–48, 160–63.
169. tNa, PreM 1/334, pp. 70–71.
170. ibid., pp. 59–63, 68.
171. ibid., pp. 69, 62.
172. ibid., pp. 29–36.
173. On lothian’s early career, see Butler, Lord Lothian, pp. 1–85.
174. ibid., pp. 114–21.
175. Quoted in ibid., p. 203; for lothian’s report on the meeting, see pp. 330–
45.
176. ibid., p. 206.
177. tNa, PreM 1/215, pp. 1–15.
178. Butler, Lord Lothian, pp. 222–24.
179. ibid., p. 227.
180. see Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler, p. 243.
181. self, Chamberlain Diary Letters, vol. 4, p. 456.
182. ibid., pp. 466–67.
183. ibid., p. 458.
184. On the militarization of the rhineland, see Weinberg, Hitler’s Foreign Pol
icy, pp. 240–63.
chapter two
1. Édouard daladier, a member of the radical Party, was prime minister from
January 31, 1933, until October 26, 1933, and again for a few weeks in 1934 and for
two years beginning in april 1938. Bertrand de Jouvenel was a distinguished phi-
losopher and political economist who in 1934 abandoned the radical Party and
became an advocate of right-wing politics. Joseph Paul-Boncour was a socialist who
served as foreign minister on three occasions, december 1932–January 1934, Janu-
ary–June 1936, and in March 1938.
2. the two letters may be found in Ministère des affaires Étrangères: Hamburg
Consulat, série B, boîte 139 (à Nantes), CadN.
3. Bury, France, p. 254; duroselle, France and the Nazi Threat, pp. xxvii–xxix.
4. Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 619, 674–75.
5. adamthwaite, France and the Coming of the Second World War, p. 284.
6. ibid., pp. 283–84; Vaïse, “against appeasement,” p. 227.
7. ascher, A Community under Siege, pp. 65–66.
8. i have relied for this information on François-Poncet’s early life on Messemer,
“andré François-Poncet und deutschland,” pp. 506–8; Craig and Gilbert, The Diplo
mats, pp. 460–64; and schäfer, André FrançoisPoncet als Botschafter, pp. 25–39.
9. see Messemer, “andré François-Poncet und deutschland,” pp. 509–11.