Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Baldwin, Admiral Lord Beatty, a host of foreign Ambassadors, and many notable Britons from every walk of life, completed the gathering. As usual the banqueters were regaled with speeches of considerable political significance. Since the Foreign Secretary spoke publicly for the first time since his return from Locarno (TIME, Nov. 2), he was well harkened...
...Chamberlain's Speech. "My Lord Mayor, thanks to your hospitality I have drunk tonight of your loving cup with the German Ambassador. What we have done this evening may the nations do tomorrow. We will work in the spirit of Locarno. . . . I am confident that the Locarno accords will be ratified by every country there represented. No statesman dare take the responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno...
Widespread relief was felt throughout Germany at this development, and it was generally considered that the Government's chances for securing ratification of the Locarno Treaties by the Reichstag had been greatly improved...
Heretofore the Nationalists have cried that the Allies were not "keeping faith" with Germany, and Herr Stresemann has been severely embarrassed by taunts that at Locarno he had "swallowed" Allied promises to evacuate the Rhineland which would never be kept...
During the week Admiral von Tirpitz fulminated against the Locarno Treaties and cynically remarked, "Might will always go before right...