After the 6 February 1934 shooting of veterans of the First World War, following the general trend toward radicalisation, the influence of Action française made itself felt. In October 1935, "Gringoire" declared itself against the international sanctions imposed on Italy following its invasion of Abyssinia to avoid pushing Mussolini toward an alliance with Hitler. For a long time the paper had showed itself favourable to the Italian regime, as well as to the Salazar regime in Portugal. It also developed an increasingly marked Anglophobia. Henri Béraud, the paper's editor, published in the 11 October 1935 issue a humoristic article titled "Do we have to reduce England to slavery?". From 1930 the paper, was Germanophobe and nationalist. Its special correspondent in Germany, Xavier de Hauteclocque, forcefully denounced the nazi régime.