Archive Report
Archive Report
French Foreign Policy and the Treaty of Versailles
When President Hoover proposed, June 20, 1931, a complete moratorium for one year on all intergovernmental debt and reparation payments, the only nation that failed to accept the suggestion with alacrity was France. The government at Paris consented to the scheme only after it had been agreed that Germany should abide by the letter of the Young Plan by paying to the Bank for International Settlements the unconditional portion of the reparation annuity due, the money to be immediately returned to her in the form of a loan.
In taking this position France was following the policy to which she has consistently adhered since the close of the war. Maintenance of the Treaty of Versailles and the subsequent ...