Vingt Ans de "Suspense" Diplomatique, by Geneviève Tabouis, French Anti-Fascist Journalist Presents the History of Diplomacy's Failure in the years leading up to WWII. Book Issued in 1958 by Editions Albin Michel . Text in French. OP.

Geneviéve Tabouis (1892 - 1985) / Paul-Boncour (Preface)

Published by Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 1958

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This book is about the sad failure of international diplomacy during the years leading up to the Second World War. "Vingt Ans de Suspense Diplomatique" by Geneviève Tabouis, was published in paperback format in 1958 by Éditions Albin Michel. There is a Preface by Paul - Boncour. Geneviève Tabouis was an outspoken journalist who closely followed the international political scene in the decades between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War. She was early on, aware of the evils that lay behind the mechanizations of Hitler and Mussolini. ****************************************************** She warned over and over again about how dangerous Hitler and the Fascists were. She was derided - Hitler himself called her ridiculous. Others warned her that she would be called a Cassandra - forgetting that that unlucky (mythical) woman's warnings came tragically true. When Hitler's intentions were clear, and states were falling under his onslaughts . and France was only too close to being swept away by the blitzkrieg, Geneviève Tabouis was warned that a warrant for her arrest would be issued and imprisonment - it was to be a sure death sentence - She escaped France, and eventually went to the United States. ***************************************************** This book is her record of those years leading up to WWII, and a sad Record it is - sad, but fascinating. The figures that were to her daily, familiar, and often frustrating actors performing on an unlevel field - are to us the historical figures who tragically - or heroically - or with evil intent - played their part. The text is entirely in French. There is a stiff index card with a note written in ink (by .? "Charbouin"). I have shown both sides, but leave it to the viewer to translate the hand-written note, which we have left in the book. ******************************************************* CHAPTERS : Le Traité de Versailles / A la S. D. N. (League of Nations), la Belle époque du Protocole / Locarno . Locarno . Tout est beau / La république de Weimar entre à la S. D. N. / A Madrid, Primo de Rivera reçoit la S. D. N. / Les États-Unis d'Europe / La S. D. N. au palais royal de la Haye et à Westminister. Conférence des Réparations et Conférence navale / Le crépuscule de Briand / Voyage officiel à Berlin. fife Briand . Fife Laval! / La mort d'Aristide Briand et celle du Désarmement / Cartel des gauches et Conférence de Lausanne / Herriot et le respect de la signature de la France / L'heure d'Hitler / Le pacte à quatre / Le Reich quitte la S. D. N. ou le prétexte tant attendu / Louis Barthou et la Pologne / Barthou, apótre du Locarno de l'Est Bucarest - Belgrade / L'entrée de l'U. R. S. S. à la S. D. N. / La tragédie de Marseille / Pierre Laval au bureau de Vergennes / Laval à Moscou / L'aile de l'occasion / Rhénanie . Rhénanie / Sur les ruines de Locarno . le 'White Paper' / Léon Blum, dictaeur de l'intelligence / Léon Blum et la guerre civile espagnole / Les champs de bataille d'Espagne scellent 'Axe Rome - Berlin / Lautriche sous la botte hitlérienne / Les heures dramatiques, Édouard Daladier. Georges Bonnet /Impuissant, le gouvernement de Prague cède à ses Alliés et à Hitler / Munich / Hitler au Hradschin / :|L'heure a sonné à l'horloge du destin. ************************************************* TITLE : Vingt Ans de "Suspense" Diplomatique (On cover : "20 ANS de suspense diplomatique") / AUTHOR : Geneviève Tabouis (1892 - 1985) / PREFACE : Paul-Boncour / IMPRINT : Éditions Albin Michel / PLACE : Paris / DATE : (1958) / EDITION : Unstated. [ On Rear Cover : 13° mille - 13,000 copies - thus a second or third printing] / LANGUAGE : French / STATUS : OP / PROVENANCE : From the personal library of internationally acclaimed literary scholar Arthur Knodel, renowned literary historian and expert on French poet Saint-John Perce. Knodel did not sign the book, but there is a note to him written on an index card, which still remains with the book. Knodel. Seller Inventory # 1767

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Title: Vingt Ans de "Suspense" Diplomatique, by ...

Publisher: Editions Albin Michel, Paris

Publication Date: 1958

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good