# Mr. Herriot's Plan

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/mr-herriot-plan/
- Published: 1924-06-28T19:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T01:49:26+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/plan-p-eryo.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/plan-errio.md

> According to the French newspapers, MacDonald has agreed to all the guarantees that Herriot demanded: control over Germany, the seizure of the bridges across the Rhine, and a general pact of mutual defense among the members of the Entente.

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The French newspapers publish the plan that Premier Herriot took with him to England, and to which MacDonald agreed entirely, declaring that he "demands no sacrifices from Mr. Herriot." All the "guarantees" that Herriot sought from England were accepted by MacDonald. Herriot's plan covers: 1) guarantees for the carrying out of the experts' decisions; 2) economic guarantees; and 3) guarantees of France's military security.

Herriot demands that military control over Germany be preserved in full, that all the bridges across the Rhine and the main strategic railway junctions of the occupied territories be left in French hands, and that England do the same in the territory occupied by its troops, until control over these territories is handed over to the League of Nations… Besides this, Herriot's plan foresees the creation of a general pact of mutual defense among France, England, Belgium, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland…