Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect of the new government accomplishing its ends are brighter than the struggles of its construction would indicate. With the foreign policy of Dr. Stresemann, the "New York Times" reports the Socialists in complete accord. The important steps of entering the League of Nations and carrying out the Locarno treaty will have the support of a majority. Any government which can set Germany thus far in the direction of European peace will not be a failure...
...Norman H.] Davis, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, denied that it ever offered Herr Stresemann a prize for his services to the cause of World Peace at Locarno...
...European stabilization crystallizing from the treaties of Locarno," Professor Hodges maintained, "guarantees American prosperity for a generation. These pacts might well be looked upon by the American people as a European insurance policy underwriting the prosperity of the United States: It is the best international promise that the war debts will be liquidated we have, almost as important as the debt settlements themselves to us, and the agreements reached by the seven nations of Europe at Locarno put the political relations of our best customers upon a friendly basis which has not existed since...
...pacts of Locarno constitute the close of the era of the great war. They demobilize the hates and suspicions of the war itself, the peace of Versailles, and the unhappy post-war days mistakenly called the reconstruction period...
...idea that a United Europe is a menace to America." Professor Hodges emphasized, "is grotesquely at variance with realities. If the Old World did not get together at Locarno, we would soon be confronted with debt settlements of no value: the collapsing of the most valuable markets open to American business; and the wiping out of the hundreds of millions of dollars our bankers have staked on European stability...