Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday, while the American public fixed its gaze upon the smoky outlines of Pittsburgh, the rest of the world watched with a growing interest the tiny town of Locarno where two old enemies, Germany and France, were trying with the help of their neighbors to covenant a lasting peace. And a treaty was born at Locarno, a treaty which may mean the salvation of Western Europe. For Germany and France have at last created a land barrier between them which is to remain forever neutral soil, and in the contingency that either of them crosses this zone for the purpose...
...hope flickers before the tired eyes of the nations. Yet there have been other promises in other treaties, and men in the fury of their vengeance or their lust have forgotten the promises and destroyed the treaties. Now a new document lies on the table of the conference at Locarno. Dare one hope that this may serve as the safeguard of a lasting peace...
Whether there is any immediate possibility of a return from Doorn is another question. Germany is still weak and seeking concessions from her erstwhile fees. It is worth noticing, however, that while Dr. Luther and his associates are negotiating for permanent peace at Locarno, his substitute is dedicating a monument inscribed "Out of our bodies there will arise an avenger...
...last Tchitcherin broke away from them and cornered Foreign Minister Stresemann; he talked and talked to him all afternoon, all night, until two in the morning of the day when Stresemann was to leave for Locarno...
Herr Stresemann, for his part, had little enough with which to parry gracefully the Russian's arguments, such as they were. While his train for Locarno stood waiting at the station, he could only assure M. Tchitcherin that Germany has often voiced her intention of not assuming any obligations under the League which might lead to Allied troops being mobilized across Germany to attack Russia; and that Germany would evade any Allied desire to impose such obligations upon her at Locarno, if she could. Meanwhile would not Minister Tchitcherin please be quiet, and accept for his country...