caa a22 4500 386389764 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00011434 doi S0026749X00011434 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00011434 Laffey John F. Concordia University French Far Eastern Policy in the 1930s [Elektronische Daten] [John F. Laffey] The completion in 1986 of the Documents diplomatiques français, 1932-1939 permits a review of French Far Eastern policy during that troubled time characterized by J.-B. Duroselle as ‘la décadence.' This massive documentary collection, however, still dose not provide a full picture of the forces which shaped French East Asian policy in the years before the outbreak of the Pacific War. Understandably focused upon European developments, it begins and ends, from the Far Eastern perspective, in medias res; that is, after the outbreak of the Manchurian crisis and before the Japanese occupation of Indochina. Moreover, like other compilations of what statesmen and diplomats said to each other, this one slights economic factors and, though to a lesser extent, the role of public opinion. Even taken in their own terms, the documents perhaps reveal more about what others said and did to the French than about what they themselves accomplished. That points to a more fundamental problem, for one can question whether anything so gelatinous as the French responses or lack thereof to developments largely beyond their control can even be described as ‘policy.' Still, although much more work in archives and private papers will be necessary before the entire story can be pieced together, these documents do shed light on what passed for French policy in East Asia during the years before the outbreak of World War II. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 117-149 0026-749X 23:1<117 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011434 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011434 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Laffey John F. Concordia University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 117-149 0026-749X 23:1<117 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge