LOUIS BARTHOU – ON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO SECURE AN “ORIENTAL AGREEMENT” (1934)
LOUIS BARTHOU – ON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO SECURE AN “ORIENTAL AGREEMENT” (1934)

Summary/Abstract: The article is founded on a number of unpublished documents and it highlights the fact that the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou had a plan of negotiation for an “Oriental Agreement”, based on the principle of collective security. To accomplish this goal,in 1934 Barthou went on a tour of several countries in Eastern Europe (Poland and Czechoslovakia in April, Romania and Yugoslavia in June). Through these – summit – meetings, Barthou hoped to prepare a rapprochement between The Soviet Union, Poland and the Little Agreement, which, together with the Balkan Agreement, was meant “to constitute a new policy of Central and Oriental Europe, guaranteeing peace in Eastern Europe”.

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