Talk:Stresa Front

message: or maybe i was a youngling. ill start the French stub. Shame On You 16:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: hey never heard about that

message: This article has it now stands is 
completely atrocious, and is in some serious need of a major clean-up. It reads like something out of the Renzo De Felice school of historiography, which claims Benito Mussolini was a reasonable statesmen forced into alliance with Nazi Germany by an unreasonable and obstinate Britain, which just failed to recognize Italy’s rightful claims to control the Mediterranean, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Besides for questionable style (this article cries out to be edited to an more professional style), it is not simply not true that the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (A.G.N.A) of June 1935 destroyed the Stresa Front, and even less so that the Italians only invaded Ethiopia because of the A.G.N.A. As matter of fact, the Italians had been planning a invasion of Ethiopia since 1932, and ever since December 1934, had actively preparing for a invasion scheduled in the second half of 1935. At the Rome summit between Pierre Laval and Mussolini in January 1935, Mussolini made it quite clear his intention to attack the Ethiopians later on that same year. It was the Italian aggression against Ethiopia and the resulting League of Nations sanctions which destroyed the Stresa Front, not the A.G.N.A. Anyhow, Mussolini’s spazio vitale (vital space) concept, in which the entire Mediterranean, Balkans, Near East and Horn of Africa were claimed as the rightful Italian sphere of influence strongly suggests that Fascist Italy was destined to come into conflict with Britain and France, and therefore some sort of anti-British and anti-French alliance with Germany was inevitable. Right now, I don’t the time to re-edit this article properly, but this just a warning to disregard its contents at present. Some good sources for this topic are the essays on Italy in The Origins Of The Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor And The Historians London; New York: Routledge, 1999 edited by Gordon Martel and Fascist Ideology : Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945, London New York : Routledge, 2000 by Aristotle Kallis. --A.S. Brown 05:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-Up

message: I would be quite helpful include a map in the article...
--Trehansiddharth (talk) 00:02, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Laval was not prime minister in April, 1935. Pierre-Etienne Flandin was in office until end of May.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.200.54.237 (talk) 10:57, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: per source. Widefox; talk 11:11, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong prime minister 

message: The first sentence of the "Background" section begins, "After Adolf Hitler came into power with a horse..." This doesn't make any sense. Perhaps the author meant "force" instead of "horse," but even if that is the case, it is still a very awkward sentence. Since I don't know what the author really intended, I'm not going to edit it. However, perhaps someone who is more familiar with this topic can do so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chezchas (talk • contribs) 06:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Sentence of Background Section Does Not Make Sense