Editing Hoare–Laval Pact (section)

===France===

When the Chamber of Deputies debated the Pact on 27 and 28 December, the [[Popular Front (France)|Popular Front]] condemned it, with [[Léon Blum]] telling Laval: "You have tried to give and to keep. You wanted to have your cake and eat it. You cancelled your words by your deeds and your deeds by your words. You have debased everything by fixing, intrigue and slickness.... Not sensitive enough to the importance of great moral issues, you have reduced everything to the level of your petty methods".<ref>Geoffrey Warner, ''Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France'' (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 126.</ref>

[[Yvon Delbos]] declared: "Your plan is dead and buried. From its failure, which is as total as possible, you could have – but you have not – drawn a personal conclusion. Two lessons emerge. The first is that you were in a dead end because you upset everyone without satisfying Italy. The second is that we must return to the spirit of the Covenant [of the League of Nations] by preserving agreement with the nations gathered at Geneva".<ref>Warner, p. 126.</ref>

[[Paul Reynaud]] attacked the government for aiding Hitler by ruining the Anglo-French alliance.<ref>Warner, p. 126.</ref> On the motion of censure, the French government had a majority of 296 votes to 276, with 37 Radicals voting for the government.<ref>Warner, p. 127.</ref>