Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps Locarno is a symbol of the realization of this fact. The unwillingness to submit to judicial settlement is conditioned by underlying factors inherent in the existing international system, which persuades nations to decline to submit what they consider important issues to the arbitration of impartial judges. Note the almost universal exception of questions of national honor, independence and vital interests, from arbitration treaties. The judicial process is weakened by a stipulation that there shall be no submission of anything important...
...judge correctly the temper of the world--at least down to Locarno--there is probably less disposition to adopt the civilized methods of adjusting conflicting interests than there has been for some time. Few people realize or are willing to contemplate the fact that eleven years of devastating was and disintegrating peace have undermined the moral foundations of many densely populated areas of the world, and that there is more faith in the efficacy of force -- accompanied by a growing contempt for law--as a solution for international differences than there has been since the days of Napoleon. The forces...
...opinion of experienced political leaders, such as Herr Paul Loebe, President of the Reichstag seemed to be, "Germany must ratify the Locarno agreement." As to the actual means by which this is to be accomplished their predictions were vague. Many believe that the Nationalist Reichstag deputies will vote half for and half against the pacts, as they did in the case of the Dawes Plan, thus avoiding responsibility but allowing the measure to pass. The Socialists, unwilling to accept the responsibility which this move would thrust upon them, are threatening to vote 50-50 likewise, and have already issued...
...Aristide Briand. Seven times M. Briand has been Premier of France. His famed War Cabinet contained every living former Premier.* Since his ill-starred attempt to gain "security" for France at Cannes, in 1922, he has steadily built up that ideal into the concrete embodiment which it achieved at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.). Last week, as Acting President of the Council of the League of Nations, he was able to impose peace and a measure of "security" upon the squabbling Greeks and Bulgars (see GREECE). Now he stands forth as the "popular" bulwark to which M. Painleve looks...
With this action, the present "extraordinary sessions" of the Council were terminated. M. Briand and Mr. Chamberlain, beaming at such an addition to their Locarno laurels (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2), summoned the Greek and Bulgarian representatives to drown their differences a l'Anglaise in "a dish of tea." Smiling, M. Carapanos and M. Marfov accepted-even joked with one another over the teacups...