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 battlefie… - Pierre Laval

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 hitherto. War would mean the end of Christian civilization.

What is going on is abominable. A cry of indignation goes up at such a situation. Today, Germany, who lost the war, has more territory than she had before 1914... I demand that the government should find the solution. But there's one which is impossible and that is to let Germany go on with what she's doing.

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.