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- Title
Defending sovereignty without collaboration: Vichy and the Italian Fascist threats of 1940–1942.
- Authors
Varley, Karine
- Abstract
This article asks how Vichy sought to defend French sovereignty against Italian threats across those unoccupied areas of France and its colonial empire which were covered by the Italian armistice between June 1940 and November 1942. It suggests that, while Vichy's response to German violations of French sovereignty was limited by its policy of collaboration, no such constraints were in place when it came to Italian interventions. Despite this, however, the defence of French sovereignty against Italian threats was not a straightforward story of defiance. Opposing Italian actions in one policy domain in one territory had to be weighed against the potential repercussions in another policy domain in another territory. It also had to be calibrated with the implications for French relations with Berlin. The Italian dimension to Vichy's actions therefore suggests that the biggest challenge in negotiations was not Vichy's desire to defend its sovereign status so much as the lure of collaboration.
- Subjects
SOVEREIGNTY; FASCISTS; COLONIES; 20TH century French history; FRANCE-Germany relations
- Publication
French History, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 3, p422
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crz064