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French and Greeks during the phoney war

Articles

• Mourelos, Yannis G.

The idea of creating a Balkan front preoccupied the Allies from the verybeginning of the war. This paper relates the French-inspired plan of sendingmilitary forces to Salonika and its consequences both on inter-allied relationsand on relations between the Allies and the Balkan states.The futility of this plan is also highlighted by the diversity of points ofview expressed by the main protagonists: Premiers Edouard Daladier andPaul Reynaud, the Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general Alexis Léger, GeneralsMaurice Gamelin and Maxime Weygand on the French side; PremierJohn Metaxas and General Alexander Papagos on the Greek side.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

Ελλάδα-Γαλλία

Το άρθρο αποτελεί μέρος πρακτικών του ελληνογαλλικού συμποσίου που πραγματοποιήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη την περίοδο 15-17 Οκτωβρίου 1987 με τίτλο «La France, la Grece et les Balkansdans les annees trente».