WHICH WAY FRANCE To DARSIE GILLIE AND THOMAS CADETT ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A large number of passages in this book have been taken from the
Authors dispatches and articles in the Manchester Guardian. He is
greatly indebted to the Editor for his kind permission to reprint
them here. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE ACKNOWLEDGMENT - 7 PREFACE -
...... 15 I NON-STOP 1919-32 21 Armistice Day. Clemenceau. Germany
Shall Pay. Millerand. Bolshevik Menace. Poincarl and the Ruhr. Left
Election Victory of 1924. Financial Crisis of 1924-26. Herriot.
Failure of Geneva Protocol. Locarno the next best thing. Poincare
saves the franc. Briands peace policy. Three years of prosperity.
End of Poincare . Tardieu and Laval. Decline of Briand. A great
Franco-German Riddle. Briands death. Tardieu preaching bonne
kumeur. II THE ABORTIVE FRONT POPULAIRE OF 1932 - 39 The Left
Election Victory of 1 93 2. The Cahiers Huyghens. Conservative
Radicals and uncompromising Socialists. The Herriot Cabinet.
Lausanne. American War Debts. 1933 Illusion of French Stability.
Fall of Daladier Gov ernment. End of 1933 the Great Crisis of
Parliamentary Government. III THE SIXTH OF FEBRUARY AND AFTER 47
The Stavisky Bombshell. Anti-Parliamentary Press Cam paign.
Chautemps braves the storm. Royalist riots. Fall of Chautemps
Government. Daladier Government. Chiappe. 6th of February. A
Fascist plot Support of public opinion. Daladier s resignation.
February 7 A night of anarchy. The working class reacts. Com munist
riot of February 9. Socialist-Communist relations. The General
Strike of February 12. Doumergue. IV PARLIAMENT BULLIED BY THE
STREET - THE CRODC DE FEU - -----64 The Doumergue Cabinet. Chantage
de la Rue The Prince Affair. Colonel de laRocque. The success of
the Croix de Feu. Their mystique. Their strange rela tions with
Doumergue. V THE DOUMERGUE-TARDIEU PLOT AGAINST THE REPUBLIC 75
Doumergue s - wireless antics. His attacks on the Social ists and
Communists. Devaluation scare. His Consti tutional proposal. The
Premiers prerogatives. M. 9 1 CONTENTS CO71 1171UCU, CHAPTER PAGE
Doumergue has revised the British Constitution. The effect of the
Marseilles assassinations. Reshuffle of the Cabinet. Laval becomes
Foreign Minister. Blums slashing attack on Doumergue s reforms.
Analogy with MacMahon. The Radical Congress. Herriots pledge.
Intimidation of Parliament. Doumergues Bluff called. Resignation of
his Cabinet. A final threat. Armistice Day 1934. Doumergue
proclaimed Fascist leader. Back to Tournefeuille. A first victory
over Fascism. VI ENTER LAVAL 93 Back to more normal parliamentary
Government. The Flandin Cabinet. M. Flandin. His economic theories.
Laval. His policy compared with Barthous. First meeting with Laval.
Personal peculiarities. His career. League and Saar. The
International Force. Flirting with -Ribbentrop. VII THE SAAR
INTERLUDE - - - - - 106 VIII BUILDING ON SAND - - - - - 123 Laval a
dustbin of conflicting desires. His triumphant journey to Rome. How
he was bamboozled by Mussolini. Free hand in Abyssinia The
Anglo-French London Communique. The French Army. Lean recruiting
years. France doubles term of military service. Blums attack. A bos
les deux ans. Hitlers reply Conscription in Germany. Simon in
Berlin. A comic conference. EXTRACTS FROM A STREGA DIARY. Result of
Stresa. Laval signs Franco-Soviet Pact. IX CHAMBER VERSUS BANK OF
FRANCE THE DOUBLE CABINET CRISIS OF MAY-JUNE 1935 142 Conflict
betweenFlandin and Bank of France. Financial panic. Flandin s
surrender. Advocates of devaluation. Reynaud, Mickey Mouse of the
Chamber. The comic one day cabinet of M. Fernand Bouisson. What
sort of per son he was. Two bald heads. Caillauxs grand entry. And
quick exit. The Caillaux legend. Fall of Bouisson Government. Bank
of France continues resistance. Laval forms new cabinet. Deflation.
Government servants riots. X THE RISE OF THE FRONT POPULAIRE - -
153 After February 6. United Front of August 1934. Socialist and
Communist manoeuvring. The Symbolic Election of M...
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