With Germany and Poland on the verge of a border crisis, the French people could no longer sit still.
On August 3, 1935, the French Foreign Minister personally traveled to Berlin and asked the German Government to hold a peace conference.
At the same time, the French ambassador to Italy contacted the Italian Government, proposing that the two sides involved in the incident sit down at the negotiating table and seek a peaceful settlement instead of resorting to the military force no one wanted to see and paying for the final result in blood.
Since the agreed time for the attack had not yet arrived, Germany and Italy also wanted to see what choice the French people would make. Thus, they agreed to France's request for peace talks.
As for Poland, faced with demands from France and Austria, the Polish people could not possibly ignore them.
If Poland lost the support of the European Great Powers by disregarding the demands of France and Austria, its odds of facing Germany alone would actually be quite poor.
No matter how great the ambitions of the Polish Government were, it could not lose its reason for the sake of those ambitions. After careful consideration, the Polish people also agreed to sit at the negotiating table and resolve the issue peacefully.
However, the several countries held different opinions about where the negotiations should take place.
As the initiator of the peace talks, the French people wanted to hold them in Paris. Paris was not only the French people's home ground, but also relatively far from the site of the dispute, making it one of the more suitable locations.
But both Germany and Poland rejected the French request outright. The Polish people demanded that the talks be held in Poland, respecting Poland's sovereignty over its