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Ecole Normale Supérieure not Sciences Po'[edit]

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André François-Poncet was at the Ecole Normale Supérieure not in Sciences Po'. See "il fut admis en 1907 à l’École normale supérieure." http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=600 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluescountryboy (talk • contribs) 18:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Diplomatic immunity[edit]

The article says correctly that François-Poncet was indeed accused by Hitler of scheming with Ernst Röhm and General Kurt von Schleicher in his speech justifying the Night of the Long Knives to overthrow him and that indeed this allegation was baseless, but François-Poncet could not have been charged with anything. As the French ambassador to Germany, François-Poncet enjoyed diplomatic immunity. If the German police arrested and charged François-Poncet with a conspiracy to overthrow the German state, this would had caused a major crisis as the French would had objected to this violation of the diplomatic immunity enjoyed by their ambassador in Berlin. That is generally what happens when the right of diplomatic immunity is violated by the host country. Hitler could had François-Poncet declared persona non grata, which is what normally happens when diplomats are accused of misconduct. If Hitler wanted to have François-Poncet charged with conspiracy to overthrow his regime, he would had to present proof to the French government that the French ambassador to Germany had engaged in criminal conduct and ask the French government to waive his diplomatic immunity. Then and only then could François-Poncet be charged in Germany. Of course, there was no conspiracy to overthrow Hitler, so his allegations of a putsch to overthrow him were not based in fact, and Hitler had no proof to present to the French government that would had led to the Quai d'Orsay waiving François-Poncet's diplomatic immunity. From Hitler's viewpoint, this was actually be a rather dangerous thing to do, since whatever "evidence" he presented to the French to support such a request was likely to be rejected as fabricated. François-Poncet was a man well known for advocating improving French relations with Germany, so is why his appointment as ambassador to Berlin was greeted with approval on the Wilhelmstrasse in 1931. If Hitler declared a French ambassador known for pro-German views persona non grata, there was always the danger that the Quai d'Orsay would replace him with an ambassador who more anti-German. The article should really say that Hitler made no request to the French government to waive François-Poncet's diplomatic immunity or declare him persona non grata. The very fact that Hitler did neither of these two things proves he did not believe his claims of a plot to overthrow his regime. Ambassadors that get caught plotting to overthrow their host governments are usually declared persona non grata.--A.S. Brown (talk) 19:34, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]