Title: From ally to enemy : the enigma of Fascist Italy in French diplomacy, 1920-1940 /
Authors: Shorrock, William I., 1941-
Publisher: Kent State University Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: France Foreign relations Italy.; Italy Foreign relations France.; France Foreign relations; France Politics and government
Contents: France and the emergence of the fascist era in Italy, 1920-23 -- Cooperation and competition, 1923-32 -- Jouvenel mission to Rome -- From Jouvenel to Louis Barthou -- The Laval-Mussolini accords of January 1935 -- Military preparations and the Stresa front -- Ethiopia and the fall of Laval -- Sanctions, the Rhineland crisis, and the inception of the popular front -- From the Spanish crisis to the Anschluss, October 1936-March 1938 -- France and the Anglo-Italian easter accord of 1938 -- From the recognition of empire to the pact of steel -- To war.