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For example, in early 1911, following French press reports contrasting the virility of the Triple Alliance with the moribund state of the Entente, Eyre Crowe minuted: "The fundamental fact of course is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate emergencies it may be found to have no substance at all.
The Franco-British Union was a proposed union in the 20th century to unite the United Kingdom and the French Republic during the second World War. This hypothetical union would have united their militaries, government, and the foreign policy of both nations.
One important consequence was that the cabinet postponed the arrest of socialist revolutionaries. Viviani reassured Britain of Belgian neutrality but also said that "the gloves were off". Commemorative plaque at the Café Croissant. Jaurès's murder brought matters one step closer to world war.
The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" (Empire français). It was de jure the end of the "indigenous" status of French subjects in colonial areas. It was dissolved in 1958, after the ...
The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase Transfer of Louisiana by Ford P. Kaiser for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) Flag raising in the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square), New Orleans, marking the transfer of sovereignty over French Louisiana to the United States, December 20, 1803, as depicted by Thure de Thulstrup in 1902
1904 State of the Union Address; Date: December 6, 1904 () Venue: House Chamber, United States Capitol: Location: Washington, D.C. [1] Coordinates: Type: State of the Union Address: Participants: Theodore Roosevelt: Previous: 1903 State of the Union Address: Next: 1905 State of the Union Address
Anti-communism prevented the French left from forming a united front. The Communists had taken control of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union. This was relatively weakened by the 1948 creation of a social-democratic trade union Workers' Force (FO) which was supported by the American Central Intelligence Agency.
A Diplomatic History of the United States (2nd ed. 1942) online; old standard textbook; Bemis, Samuel Flagg and Grace Gardner Griffin. Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States 1775–1921 (1935) bibliographies; out of date and replaced by Beisner (2003)