War means the end of us all. Mankind is morally incapable of enduring another war, the horrors of which will surpass everything that has occurred hit… - Pierre Laval

Just as war was originally waged between towns, then between countries and recently between empires, so, in future, it would be waged between continents. He did not believe in a Franco-German conflict...but sooner or later the Russians and the Chinese would launch an attack upon Europe. We had to make ourselves safe against this.

We will always be neighbours of Germany. We face the alternative of reaching an agreement with her or of clashing every twenty years on the battlefield.

I consider agreement between Italy and France, that is to say between the Latin countries, including Nationalist Spain as well, as my life's mission.