Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adopting the resolution just quoted, the Assembly registered for posterity that in March, 1926, the foremost statesmen of Europe were not yet ready to take the final step designed to bring the Locarno Treaties into effect...
...political alarmists did not venture to prophesy that Germany would not be admitted to the League now. Yet the postponement to September has been made. It can only be said that before that time further difficulties as unexpected and as potent as those just encountered may arise. The Locarno Treaties have unquestionably been put in serious jeopardy...
...German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League and the Locarno Pacts nailed down. Unfortunately, Sir Austen was obliged to admit, tacitly at least, that he had secretly committed the British Government to support the claims of Poland. It was made clear that only upon this supposition did France and Poland indorse the Locarno Treaties in the first place. The vicious...
...realize, gentlemen, that we now have deliberation not upon permanent seats in the Council, out on peace or war? If there is failure here, it is failure of the Locarno agreements-Europe again divided into two or three camps, the spirit of revenge stirred up in Europe and in five years a new world conflict...
...Villa Rocabella near Locarno, Switzerland, was recently leased by a mysterious tenant, a lean, fox-faced German. Last week he motor-boated from Swiss Locarno across Lake Maggiore to Italian Stresa and there took the train for Milan. The next night he returned past Lake Maggiore, hurried on to Lucerne, where he doffed his incognito and admitted that he was the former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany...