Talk:Calais Conference (December 1915)

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 15:37, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

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Briand

• ... that French prime minister Aristide Briand (pictured) amended the records of the 4 December 1915 Calais Conference to remove his agreement to a British proposal to evacuate the Salonika front? Source: " Because of the possible collapse of his own administration Briand had been obliged to take drastic measures. The French cabinet, examining the record of the Calais meeting, came to the conclusion on 6 December that the document did indeed represent a reluctant acceptance on France's part of the decision to evacuate.56 Such a step remained, how ever, a political impossibility, while the conflict of wills between Britain and France had created, in Cambon's opinion, the gravest crisis since the outbreak of war. So Briand, in his own hand, carefully changed the wording of the proces-verbal of the conference, drawn up by his Directeur Politique, de Margerie, so as decisively to alter the sense of what had been decided upon at Calais. It was now made to appear that the French representatives had merely taken note of the British pronouncements ad referendum to their own government" from page 152 of: Dutton, D. J. (1978). "The Calais Conference of December 1915". The Historical Journal. 21 (1): 143–156. ISSN 0018-246X.
  • ALT1: ... that a 4 December 1915 agreement by French prime minister Aristide Briand (pictured) with a British proposal to evacuate the Salonika front almost led to the collapse of his government? Source: as per first sentence of above quote
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jay Owen Light
  • Comment: Would be nice to run on 4 December, for 107th anniversary

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:22, 25 October 2022 (UTC).

• New article that was moved to mainspace on 25 October 2022‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ is 5,881 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (AGF sources which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 181 characters long (ALT1 is 174); both are under 200 character max. and are interesting. Ref 3 (verifying the main hook and ALT1) is a reliable source. QPQ done. Image is free and in the public domain. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 16:18, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

• Save for December 4 (anniversary of the conference). —Bloom6132 (talk) 16:18, 25 October 2022 (UTC)