the three observers is about 3 foreign diplomats envoy to Germany. its shows their diplomatic skills.

1. The three
observers
Foreign envoys to Germany,1930
By Abbasi Dawood

2. British,French,English
• World war 2
• Knowledge & Experience
• Emerging Germany
• Conception based on country’s interest

3. Horace Rumbold
German-Polish frontier
1925, Poland excluded all German imports
Danger to German foreign policy
Talk with Curtius referring “absurb”
Ostpolitik (Germany & Eastern Europe)
• Polish frontier dominated in German thinking on
foreign policy

4. Germany’s armaments
• Rearm, hostility to Poland
• Reports of illegal activity
• Never argued on treaty violation
• Left wing opposition would keep rearmament in reasonable
limits
• Mixture of wariness & violence of German nationalism
• Hoping for essential moderation of existing Gov.

5. German-Austrain
Customs union
• Revive trade
• British & french government
• Western power hostile reaction to union
• Threatening anschluss & discriminatory trade
agreement
• Representing own government opposition
• Influnenced member of german cabinet

6. Willian E Dodd
• Not to trust the Nazis, things getting worse ahead
• Influence & democratic past
• Isolation from official life
• Meeting decent people
• Failed to achieve to his aim “presenting American
position to German”

7. Richmond times dispatch
• Support of Roosevelt’s proposal
• Letters to several US senators

8. Andre francois poncet
• Brilliant record at Ecolve Normale Superieure
• Professor in lycee de Monpellier
• Sent to Switzerland & Washington
• Public defender of steel industry
• Presented Paris (7e) in chamber of deputies
• Cleverest parliamentary speaker

9. • Start steel industry with Germany
• Hostile behaviour towards Nazis
• Not supporter of German-Austrain custom union
• Czech evacuation =Met hitler
• Better Paris-Berlin relationship
• Pact assured by Hitler

10. How three observers see Nazi
Germany?
• Rambold = tolerant & warning london to stand by
for trouble
• Dodd = nervous, self-conscious “America must be
prepared
• Francois Poncet = ambitious, mid-career
Less bound to history as the above too
Realistic optimism to change to current condition
• Hoping Nazis will evovle in acceptable manner