ABSTRACT
The absence of any Franco-German dialogue was significant. Hitler had decided that France was not worthy of his attention. In the spring and early summer of 1939 he was increasingly preoccupied with Poland but no longer interested in keeping France in a conciliatory mood. The military and diplomatic links between Britain and France were much stronger than in the winter of 1938-39 and Hitler reasoned that France was more dependent than ever on her ally. The Ambassador came with an olive branch, assuring Weizsacker that he had returned to continue ‘working for pacification in Franco-German relations’. The provisional Anglo-Polish agreement had already outranged the Franco-Polish treaty of 1921 which did not provide for automatic assistance or for indirect aggression. The Polish government wanted to settle the matter of French credits while the military delegation was in Paris but Daladier told Lukasiewicz that financial terms would first have to be agreed with London.
