BLANCHOT (Maurice).

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BLANCHOT (Maurice).
After the Germanic coup de force. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. [April 1936]; 4 pages in-8 (erasures and corrections, printed article attached). Vigorous political article, published in the magazine Combat (n°4, April 1936), after the occupation of the Rhineland by Germany. Blanchot violently accuses the clan of former pacifists, revolutionaries and emigrant Jews who are ready to do anything to bring down Hitler and put an end to dictatorships, and the inconsistency of the diplomatic policy, illusory and risky. He blames the former for having indulged in a delirium of verbal energy: The day will come when we will have to look for those responsible for this frenzy which could only lead us to an adventure or to capitulation. From today, three men are designated. SARRAUT, FLANDIN, MANDEL will pay for the risk that they ran to peace, and they will pay for the dishonor with which they tried to escape this risk... He blames the diplomats for their procedural wrangling and sentimental daydreaming: There have been ridiculous stratagems to give formal satisfaction to our country and substantial satisfaction to Hitler. We gave in everything after saying we would not give in, and Germany pushed back everything.... The responsibility of the League of Nations is obvious: This inhuman, harassing and impotent institution has forced us into a decadent policy when the display of force would have been possible and beneficial [...] It has always been against peace... It is not only useless but harmful. It should be proclaimed that all the notions on which we continue to base alliances, the notion of automatic mutual assistance, of indivisible peace, of universal peace, are obsolete and dangerous. Blanchot advocates a new policy based on moral and material force, while the regime continues to go from provocation to failure, until it calls for war through its weakness or until a national revolt puts an end to its abuses.
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