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89. ddF, 2 série, tome Vi, pp. 883–92.
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90. On François-Poncet’s move to italy and his activities there, see Messemer,
“andré François-Poncet und deutschland,” p. 533.
91. ibid., p. 505.
92. Craig and Gilbert, The Diplomats, p. 555.
93. On Coulondre and Nazism, see adamthwaite, France and the Coming of the
Second World War, p. 153.
94. ddF, 2 série, tome Xii, pp. 732–33, 752–53.
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95. ibid., pp. 853–54; tome Xiii, pp. 210–12.
96. Goebbels had fallen in love with an exotic actress and wanted to make her
part of his family by establishing a ménage à trois, which would also include his
five children. When Hitler heard of this plan, he was “deeply shaken.” Under no
circumstances did he want another scandal in the top echelon of the Nazi Party. He
summoned Goebbels and ordered him to end the relationship. see reuth, Goebbels,
p. 226, and Kershaw, Hitler, 1936–1945, p. 145.
97. ddF, 2 série, tome Xii, pp. 569–73.
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98. ddF, 2 série, tome Xiii, p. 252.
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99. ibid., p. 629.
100. see ibid., pp. 281–84, for the entire dispatch.
101. ddF, 2 série, tome XiV, pp. 210–15.
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102. ibid., pp. 104–5.
103. ddF, 2 série, tome XV, pp. 17–18.
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104. this paragraph is based on information in duroselle, France and the Nazi
Threat, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, and Wright, France in Modern Times, p. 494.
105. Jackson, Politics of Depression, p. 2.
106. Bury, France, p. 258.
107. On French pacifism, see ingram, The Politics of Dissent.
108. Wright, France in Modern Times, pp. 473–75. On the stavisky affair, see
Jankowski, Stavisky.
109. Quoted in Colton, Léon Blum, p. 203. On Blum’s foreign policy, see also
Jackson, The Popular Front, pp. 189–214.
110. this paragraph is based largely on Colton, Léon Blum, pp. 84–85, 117–22,
177. see also duroselle, France and the Nazi Threat, p. 235.
111. Wright, France in Modern Times, p. 472.
112. Colton, Léon Blum, p. 199.
113. ibid.
114. steiner, Triumph of the Dark, p. 612.

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1. Quoted in Offner, American Appeasement, p. 216.
2. Breitman and Kraut, American Refugee Policy, pp. 64–65.
3. Weinberg, Hitler’s Foreign Policy, p. 352.
4. FrUs, 1930, vol. iii, pp. 90–91.
5. ibid., p. 89.
6. Burke, Ambassador Frederick Sackett, pp. 73–74.