Henri Pozzi (1879–1946) was a French lawyer, politician, diplomat and author who worked for the French and British
secret service
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s in the
Balkans
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and Eastern Europe.
Pozzi was born in
Bergerac. His father was French and his mother was English. During
World War I
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, he directed
Agence des Balkans et d'Orient, a
Paris
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-based news bureau.
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' In 1919–1921, Pozzi was the mayor of Soisy-sous-Montmorency.
Books
In 1933, Henri Pozzi wrote ''La Guerre revient...'' (published in English as ''Black Hand Over Europe'')
in which he surveys the political situation in
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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between the two World Wars, and shows how the Yugoslav state was created for the simple purpose of implementing Serbian domination over the non-Serb nations within Yugoslavia. In the book, especially harsh were the methods implemented against the
Bulgarian
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
population in
Vardar Banovina
The Vardar Banovina, or Vardar Banate ( mk, Вардарска бановина, Vardarska banovina; sr, Вардарска бановина, translit=Vardarska Banovina; al, Banovina e Vardarit, italics=no), was a province (banate) of the King ...
. Pozzi also attempted to warn of the potential for large scale conflict in Europe. The book was prohibited in the states of
Little Entente
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.
Henri Pozzi also wrote ''Les Coupables'' (1935) and ''La Bataille Contre la Paix'' (1939).
Further reading
Black Hand Over Europe by Henri Pozzi.
References
20th-century French politicians
1946 deaths
1879 births
French male writers
Mayors of places in Île-de-France
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