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1938, and the question of French policy in Eastern Europe had come up for ventilation, he had 
 
never directly or indirectly given Germany any assurances that France would wash her hands with 
 
regard to the fate of Poland [as Goering in Berlin had assured me had been the case].  M. Bonnet 
 
said that the only statement he had made to Ribbentrop in that connection had been that the 
 
French Government signed the Pact of Non-aggression with Germany with the sole reservation 
 
that the Non-aggression Pact should not be construed as impairing France's obligations under her 
 
two then-existing treaties of alliance, namely those with Soviet Russia and with Poland. M. 
 
Bonnet told me that Ribbentrop had stated in reply to the above declaration of the French 
 
Minister that the French reservation in regard to Poland could in no sense be regarded as
 
prejudicial to Germany by the German Government, inasmuch as Germany herself then had a pact 
 
of non-aggression with Poland, and inasmuch as the German Government believed that relations 
 
between Germany and Poland would be increasingly friendly during the next four or five years.
 
M. Bonnet said that Ribbentrop with regard to this question had lied brazenly and directly, and 
 
that in the official documents covering that period which had already been made public he had 
 
attempted to set forth the facts as they really were.
 
          M. Bonnet spoke at some length of the situation with regard to the French Labor Unions, 
 
and assured me that Labor in France was cooperating solidly with the Government, and that in 
 
that sense the situation was far more satisfactory in France than had been the situation in 1914-18.