Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain, M. Briand and Herr Stresemann, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Germany, set out last week with a host of lesser diplomats for the little village of Locarno, Switzerland, to try to negotiate a security pact which has as its essence the definite guaranteeing of the peace of the Rhineland. Their chances of success and the form which the fruits of their negotiations would take were contrarily predicted as follows...
...subsequent treaties at subsequent conferences may or may not arise. They made the following observations: 1) Germany, early last week, attempted to inject a denial of her War guilt and a request for the evacuation of Cologne by the Allies into her acceptance of the Allied invitation to Locarno. She was promptly squelched by diplomatic reprimands from Allies, and is coming to the conference anyway. But, Stresemann should insist on introducing either of these matters at the conference, matters might go to smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that...
...MacDonald later announced that the Labor Party was opposed to the contemplated Locarno Security Pact (see Page 12); but defended the Dawes Plan as "a step forward . . . the first great economic experiment . . . free of political prejudice." He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a "horrible settlement, iniquitous as war itself...
...months and years he has been directing from Moscow the Soviet's stupendous dream to unite with certain Western European nations and crush the rest. Until recently he has felt that Germany and Poland were diplomatically very close to Russia. Suddenly, with the coming of the Locarno Conference (see INTERNATIONAL) they seemed to be drawing away...
...Just north of the point where the Swiss frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...