Patterns of Peacemaking by A. Briggs E. Meyer David Thomson

Author:A. Briggs, E. Meyer, David Thomson [A. Briggs, E. Meyer, David Thomson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781136232572
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

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1 Introduction, p. 9. 182

1 International Conciliation, No. 396, for January, 1944, p. 28.

2 See also below, Chapter VIII, p. 308 f.

1 The complex development of the French Provisional Government is an example of how incalculable and fluctuating are national politics in modern “total” war. The Free French movement, founded in June, 1940, became the French National Committee in September, 1941: this merged with the organization of General Giraud in North Africa to form the French Committee of National Liberation in June, 1943. After Giraud and his followers were ousted, the Committee was proclaimed the “Provisional Government of the French Republic” in June, 1944, its members becoming “Ministers” when this government was moved from Algiers to Paris after the liberation of the capital. It was given de facto recognition by Britain and the United States after prolonged hesitation in August, 1944.

1 For more detailed discussion of these arrangements and commitments, see below, § 5, and for texts, see Appendix I. As the war neared its end, the tendency appeared to be to think in terms rather of the “Big Three”, with China and France ranking as a sort of second stratum—cf. Mr. Churchill’s reference (May 24th, 1944) to France deserving “the fourth place in the Grand Alliance”.

1 § 1.

2 The Times, August 3rd, 1944.

1 Below, § 3. See also M. Straight: Make this the Last War (1943); A. J. Peaslee: Make the United Nations Permanent (1942); and H. Callender: A Preface to Peace (1944).

2 See the official documents published by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Dr. H. Ripka: The Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty (1943), and Dr. E. Benes: Czechoslovak Policy for Victory and Peace (1944).

3 Approaches by the Soviet Government in 1942 and by the Yugoslav Government in October, 1943, for the signing of a Soviet-Yugoslav agreement similar to the Soviet-Czech, proved abortive. Cf. above, Chapter V, § 2.

4 See below, § 3, and Chapter VII. In September, 1944, the governments of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg signed a customs agreement for the period of reconstruction, but also in the hope of its further development. This, added to their monetary agreement of October, 1943, is one sign of possible developments in western Europe, as suggested above, pp. 167–8.

1 E.g. Le Franc-tireur (March 20th, 1943): “We proclaim that France will be remade only by the French. We do not need to borrow any ideology from foreigners. We need only to seek in our own traditions and in our own strength for the reasons and means of our reconstruction.” And “Walka”, The Fight, May 12th, 1943: “Poland is a rightful heir to the old Slavic tribes on the Baltic, not only because of her numerical and territorial superiority, but also because the old Slavic tribes and nations once settled on the Baltic were akin to us racially and historically.”

1 See “Post-War Programmes of Europe’s Underground”, by Winifred Hadsel, in Foreign Policy Association (Vol. XIX, No. 17, Nov., 1943).

1 Cf. the declarations of the Moscow and Cairo Conferences.

1 See above, Chapters II, III and IV.

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