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Ministre des affaires étrangres"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Law"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="History"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Diplomacy"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="World War II"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="World War 1939-1945"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Second World War"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Nazi Germany"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="Munich Pact"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="(SCHEME=LCSH) France--Foreign Relations"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="(SCHEME=LCSH) World War, 1939-1945--Causes"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="(SCHEME=LCSH) Europe--Politics and government--1938-"> <META NAME="DC.Subject" CONTENT="(SCHEME=LCCS) D735 .F7 1939c"> <META NAME="DC.Description" CONTENT="Papers Relative to the Events and Negotiations which Preceeded the Opening of Hostilites between Germany on the one hand, and Poland, Great Britain and France on the other hand."> <META NAME="DC.Publisher" CONTENT="New York, Pub. by the authority of the French government, Reynal & Hitchcock [c1940]"> <META NAME="DC.Type" CONTENT="Text"> <META NAME="DC.Format" CONTENT="(SCHEME=IMT) text/html"> <META NAME="DC.Identifier" CONTENT="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yellow/"> <META NAME="DC.Language" CONTENT="(SCHEME=ISO639-1) en"> <META NAME="DC.Rights" CONTENT="Copyright 1999 The Avalon Project"> </HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/css/site.css" TYPE="text/css" HREF="../css/site.css"> <BODY><DIV CLASS="HeaderContainer"> <UL CLASS="HeaderTopTools"> <LI CLASS="Search"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="0"> <FORM ID="form" NAME="form" ACTION="http://www.google.com/u/yaleu" TARGET="_blank" METHOD="get"> <INPUT NAME="domains" VALUE="yale.edu" TYPE="hidden"> <INPUT NAME="sitesearch" VALUE="avalon.law.yale.edu/" TYPE="hidden"> <TR> <TD><INPUT ONFOCUS="if (this.value=='Search Avalon'){this.value=''}" NAME="q" VALUE="Search Avalon" CLASS="SiteSearchBox" / ONBLUR="if (this.value==''){this.value='Search Avalon'}" TYPE="text" ALT="Search Avalon"></TD> <!-- <td><A HREF="javascript:this.form.submit();"><IMG SRC="http://www.law.yale.edu/library/searchGo.gif" / ALT="Begin Search"></A></TD>--> <TD><INPUT SRC="http://www.law.yale.edu/library/searchGo.gif" CLASS="go" / STYLE="margin-left:5px;" TYPE="image" ALT="Submit Search"></TD> </TR> </FORM> </TABLE> </LI> </UL> <IMG W3MIRSRC="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/images/avalon_logo2.gif" SRC="../images/avalon_logo2.gif" / ALT="Logo"></A> </DIV><DIV CLASS="text-properties"><DIV ALIGN="center"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="5" CLASS="site-menu" BORDER="1"> <TR> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp" HREF="../default.asp">Avalon Home</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/major.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/major.asp">Document<BR> Collections</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ancient.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/ancient.asp">Ancient <BR>4000bce - 399</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/medieval.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/medieval.asp">Medieval <BR>400 - 1399</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/15th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/15th.asp">15<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1400 - 1499</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/16th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/16th.asp">16<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1500 - 1599</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/17th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/17th.asp">17<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1600 - 1699</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/18th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/18th.asp">18<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1700 - 1799</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/19th.asp">19<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1800 - 1899</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/20th.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/20th.asp">20<SUP>th</SUP> Century <BR>1900 - 1999</A></TD> <TD><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/21st.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/21st.asp">21<SUP>st</SUP> Century <BR>2000 - </A></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </DIV> <DIV CLASS="document-title"> The French Yellow Book<BR> </DIV> <BR><BR> <DIV ALIGN="center"><TABLE CELLPADDING="5" BORDER="1"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><B><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/ylbk150.asp" HREF="ylbk150.asp">Previous Document</A></B></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><B><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ylbkmenu.asp" HREF="../subject_menus/ylbkmenu.asp">Contents</A></B></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><B><A W3MIRHREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/ylbk152.asp" HREF="ylbk152.asp">Next Document</A></B></TD> </TABLE> </DIV> <H4 ALIGN="center">No. 151 : <BR>M. GAUQUIÉ, French Chargé d'Affaires in Warsaw, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Warsaw, July 3, 1939.</H4> <P>LAST Friday a group of youths belonging to the "Hitler Jugend" crossed the frontier in Pomerania. They were at once arrested by Polish frontier guards and imprisoned. On being informed of this, the German Embassy intervened with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who immediately gave orders for the young Germans to be set at liberty. </P> <P>The German Press has not breathed a word about this incident, nor, for that matter, has the Polish Press. </P> <P>It was M. 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