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French politician (1885–1956)

Yvon Delbos (7 May 1885 – 15 November 1956) was a French Radical-Socialist Party politician and minister.

Biography

Delbos was born in Thonac, Dordogne, and entered a career as a journalist, and became a member of the Radical-Socialist Party. He subsequently served as Minister of Education (1925), Minister of Justice (1936), and notably as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Popular Front governments of Léon Blum and Camille Chautemps.

In January 1937, unveiling a war memorial at Châteauroux, Delbos, in reply to Hitler's Reichstag speech of the previous day, emphasised the need for Franco-German understanding and for both countries to find new markets so that industrial expansion might replace rearmament. After representing France at the Nine Power Treaty Conference at Brussels on 3 November, he expounded French Foreign Policy in a debate in the Chamber on 18–19 November, emphasizing Anglo-French friendship and the necessity for its maintenance. Ten days later, he visited London with Chautemps to receive a report from Neville Chamberlain and Anthony Eden on the result of the Halifax-Hitler talks. Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visiting Warsaw on 3 December, Bucharest on 8 December, Belgrade on 12 December and Prague on 15 December, in each case discussing the European situation with the ministers of the countries in question, and seeking to foster friendly relations with France.

On 10 December 1937 it was announced that a plot to assassinate him at Prague had been discovered by the French Police and the prospective assailant was arrested. He was reappointed Foreign Minister in the reconstructed Chautemps government in the third week of January 1938 but was excluded from Léon Blum's cabinet in March 1938.

During the Spanish Civil War, he worked alongside his British counterpart Anthony Eden in fleshing out the policy of nonintervention.

References

Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year 1938, London, 1938, p.195.
Britannica 1938, p.195.
Britannica 1938, p.195-6.
Britannica 1938, p.196.

Bibliography

Benoît Cazenave, Yvon Delbos, in Hier war das Ganze Europa, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätte, Editions Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004.

External links

Newspaper clippings about Yvon Delbos in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Political offices
Preceded byAnatole de Monzie	Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts 1925	Succeeded byÉdouard Daladier
Preceded byPierre Étienne Flandin	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1936–1938	Succeeded byJoseph Paul-Boncour
Preceded byJean Zay	Minister of National Education 1939–1940	Succeeded byAlbert Sarraut
Preceded byAlbert Sarraut	Minister of National Education 1940	Succeeded byAlbert Rivaud
Preceded byGuy Mollet, Augustin Laurent	Minister of State with Marcel Roclore 1947	Succeeded by—
Preceded byFrançois Billoux	Interim Minister of National Defense 1947	Succeeded byPierre-Henri Teitgen
Preceded byÉdouard Depreux	Minister of National Education 1948	Succeeded byMichel Tony-Révillon
Preceded byMichel Tony-Révillon	Minister of National Education 1948–1950	Succeeded byAndré Morice

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