Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting upon instructions from President von Hindenburg, Chancellor Luther last week continued his efforts to smooth the way for ratification of the Locarno treaties by Germany...
...Locarno signifies for Germany her return as a great power. The Locarno Conference was not ideally complete in its labors, but it was distinctly a step in the right direction for Germany and the world. I have every confidence the concessions promised us in the Rhineland will be granted. The German people cannot afford to reject the pact...
...this was taken as an open menace to the Nationalists, and as a threat to force a showdown before the electorate, if they succeed in scotching the Locarno treaties in the Reichstag...
This widespread prosperity for 1925 was largely predicated upon easy money conditions, and as yet no end to this favorable factor is in sight. Moreover, the Locarno Conference has led the way definitely and decisively to peace in Europe, reduction in armaments, balanced budgets and business recovery...
Cried Il Popolo d'ltalia, official organ of Premier Mussolini, scoring M. Vanderyelde, Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, for refusing to shake hands with Dictator Benito, at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26): "Vandervelde is a hooligan in diplomacy ... a Social Democrat who fouts the established canons of diplomatic courtesy, which are scrupulously observed by even the Russian Bolsheviki. . . . Fortunately Emile Vandervelde is an insignificant person. . . . [But] the Locarno episode will not be forgotten...