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Between sixteen and 19 May 1939, a Polish delegation led by the Military Affairs Minister, General Tadeusz Kasprzycki, visited Paris to power the Franco-Polish alliance; to work out workers plans if Germany did invade Poland and to facilitate French arms shipments to Poland. On 30 June 1939, St. Léger advised Bullitt that the very best hope of stopping the Danzig disaster from turning into a battle were an alliance with the Soviet Union and American army help to France, especially aircraft. No matter what Bonnet really stated, Ribbentrop upon his return to Berlin instructed Hitler that France now accepted that Eastern Europe was inside the sphere of affect of the Reich and there was no hazard of France going to conflict for Poland. Throughout the visit of Ribbentrop, he and Bonnet went out for a stroll in the Tuileries Garden where Bonnet was mentioned to have informed Ribbentrop that the French alliance system in Eastern Europe was over and that France now recognized Eastern Europe as being within Germany's exclusive sphere of influence. Since then, the states have partially crammed the shortfall but they argue the Commonwealth has a constitutional obligation to contribute extra. St. Léger believed that the promise of American help can be essential to permit France to face the Reich in the Danzig disaster, and he felt that such cultural diplomacy utilizing the historical relationship between France and the United States as properly their shared democratic values would win the American public over to a more favorable view of France.