Yvon Delbos (7 May 1885 – 15 November 1956) was a FrenchRadical-Socialist Party[1] politician and minister.
Delbos was born inThonac,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 asMinister of Foreign Affairs in thePopular Front governments ofLéon Blum andCamille Chautemps.[2]
In January 1937, unveiling awar memorial atChâteauroux, Delbos, in reply toHitler'sReichstag 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 theNine Power Treaty Conference atBrussels 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 fromNeville Chamberlain andAnthony Eden on the result of the Halifax-Hitler talks. Afterwards, he set out on a tour of the central and eastern European capitols, visitingWarsaw on 3 December,Bucharest on 8 December,Belgrade on 12 December andPrague 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.[3]
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 fromLéon Blum's cabinet in March 1938.[4]
During theSpanish Civil War, he worked alongside his British counterpartAnthony Eden in fleshing out the policy of nonintervention.
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| Preceded by | Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts 1925 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Foreign Affairs 1936–1938 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of National Education 1939–1940 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of National Education 1940 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of State withMarcel Roclore 1947 | Succeeded by — |
| Preceded by | InterimMinister of National Defense 1947 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of National Education 1948 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of National Education 1948–1950 | Succeeded by |
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