The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936 : : French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland / / Piotr Stefan Wandycz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wandycz, Piotr Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 946
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (556 p.)

Although France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were in jeopardy from a recovery of German power after World War I and from a potential German hegemony in Europe, France failed in her efforts to maintain a system of alliances with her two imperiled neighbors. Focusing on the period from 1926 to 1936, Piotr Wandycz seeks to explain how and why these three nations, with so much at risk, neglected to act in concert. Wandycz is the author of a well-known study on the series of alliances constructed by France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in the years following the Treaty of Versailles. In this current volume he picks up the story after the Locarno Pact (1925) and follows the progressive disintegration of the alliance system until the time of Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland.Through an examination of the political, military, and economic relations among France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, the author provides valuable insights into an era that contained the seeds of the future war and the collapse of the historic European system. By relying on French, Polish, and more selectively Czechoslovak and Western archives, and thanks to his intimate knowledge of Central and East European published sources, he has filled a large gap in the history of prewar diplomacy. He shows how the divergent aims of Czechoslovakia and Poland combined with a decline of French willpower to prevent a real cohesion among the partners.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Background: The French System -- Part One. Post-Locarno Diplomacy -- Chapter One. The Shadow of Locarno -- Chapter Two. The Turbulent Year 1926 -- Chapter Three. Eastern or Central European Locarno -- Chapter Four. Toward the Evacuation of the Rhineland -- Chapter Five. The End of an Era -- Part Two. The Depression -- Chapter Six. Revisionism and Briand's European Union -- Chapter Seven. Austro-German Union and Financial Diplomacy -- Chapter Eight. French Initiatives and Failures -- Part Three. Responses to Hitler -- Chapter Nine. A Dilemma: The Four Power Pact -- Chapter Ten. At Crossroads, The German Polish Declaration of Nonaggression -- Chapter Eleven. Louis Barthou and His Diplomacy -- Chapter Twelve. Fronts or ¥aqades} -- Chapter Thirteen. The Test of 7 March -- Appraisal: A Pattern of Relations -- Appendix I -- Bibliography -- Index