Episode 768
Stresa Front
Tue, 2019-Jun-11 00:26 UTC
Length - 1:54
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The random article for Tuesday, 11 June 2019 is Stresa Front.
The Stresa Front was an agreement made in Stresa, a town on the banks of Lake Maggiore in Italy, between French prime minister Pierre-Étienne Flandin (with Pierre Laval), British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, and Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini on April 14, 1935. Formally called the Final Declaration of the Stresa Conference, its aim was to reaffirm the Locarno Treaties and to declare that the independence of Austria "would continue to inspire their common policy". The signatories also agreed to resist any future attempt by the Germans to change the Treaty of Versailles. Some historians -like P. Buchanan in his "Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War"- wrote that the Stresa Front was the most important attempt to stop Hitler before the start of WW2. The Stresa Front broke down completely within two/three months of the initial agreement, just after the Italian invasion of Abyssinia.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:26 UTC on Tuesday, 11 June 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Stresa Front on Wikipedia.
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