The Archive · 1940

Last Vestige of Mutual Aid

Collapse of the Balkan Entente marked the passing of the last vestige of the elaborate criss-cross of mutual wid and defensive blocs created within the framework of the League of Nations after the World War, declared the report..

"The Little Entente failed to protect Czechoslovakia due chiefly to Poland's refusal to join as long as the Czechs refused to give them the Teschen "The Balkan Entente, like the Little Entente, cost France heavily. M. Aristides Brignd and the French Foreign Ministers who came after him were largely responsible for the complex alliances, To encourage the south-eastern states to enter those defensive alliances, France was obliged to."lend" them many hundreds of millions of francs to finance their rearmament.

None of those loans ever have been area. it is a historial fact that when

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