Abstract
Some enthusiasts hopefully hailed the London conversations as the renaissance of the Entente Cordiale. They were wrong. Below the surface of things, the idea had great power. Ministers on both sides of the Channel dutifully cultivated the appearance of unity, whether they believed in Anglo-French collaboration as the first principle of their country’s foreign policy or not. But in 1935 the centrifugal forces in Anglo-French relations were too strong to justify so firm a phrase, though there were ambiguities galore in the pre-1914 Entente Cordiale. Especially on the British side, thoughts, feelings and actions were ambivalent and divisive.
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Rostow, N. (1984). Pas Encore Sérieux: From London to Stresa. In: Anglo-French Relations, 1934–36. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17370-9_5
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