Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preamble, however, was of the first importance. In it Herr Stresemann managed to put on record the fact that Germany is applying for admission only on the strength of the assurances and concessions which she received at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26 INTERNATIONAL...
...common dangers faced". She has cemented industrial comity by new commercial treaties with Austria, France, Germany, Spain, and Czecho-Slovakia. In company with the continental nations in general, she joined the League of Nations and the World Court. With Italy, France, and Britain, she was party to the Locarno pact: and it is significant of lingering fears, that M. Vandevelde values most highly the specific German-Belgian arbitration convention appended to the treaty...
...reconstructed what M. Vandevelde calls "her shattered international status". Yet the very multiplicity of guarantees reveals that post-war diplomacy in Europe is very much a heritage from prewar days; and suggests that this is likely to be so until the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Locarno treaties attain the prestige of a much longer life...
Toward the League. Foreign Minister Stresemann made good use of the kindly feelings engendered in German hearts by the evacuation of Cologne. While the Rhineland celebration was still at its height, Herr Stresemann publicly announced that but for the Locarno Pacts the Allies would have delayed still longer before evacuating Cologne. Ergo, it behooved Germany to hurry up and enter the League of Nations as provided in the Locarno treaties (TIME, Nov. 2). Next day the astute Herr Stresemann convoked the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag, demanded and received its authority to apply unconditionally to the League for Germany...
Firmer. Next day Herr Luther abandoned all attempt to conciliate the Right?played to the Socialists of the Left, who helped him to railroad through the Locarno Pacts. He declared positively that the Cabinet would hasten the entrance of Germany into the League, and announced his intention of calling for a vote of confidence on the morrow: "The Government will not attempt to carry on by backstairs tactics or shillyshallying." The session closed amid a Luther motion from the Centre...