Word: locarno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman has had a military convention with France to protect him since 1920. Until Locarno (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925, et seq.) he was trying desperately to get a similar military convention with Britain?failed. Then at Locarno he seemed to have obtained all he wanted, security...
Article II of the "Locarno Pact"? reads: "Germany and Belgium, and Germany and France undertake to settle by peaceful means ... all questions of every kind which may arise between them...
That is unequivocal. But Article V goes further and absolutely binds all the Locarno Powers to enforce arbitration of Franco-German and Belgio-German disputes upon those three powers, whether all three want to fight...
...Vandervelde is the outstanding Socialist of Belgium?and the Belgian Socialist party slightly outnumbers any other. He was about to speak for the laboring class. More, he would speak as one of the authors of Locarno, as the Belgian representative on the Council of the League, as the man who has attended more international conferences for peace than any other living Belgian statesman...
...great and staggering significance of what was said in the Belgian Chamber officially last week is that the most pacific nation in Europe doubts that the Locarno Pact will keep the peace, and prepares to re-arm ("defensively," of course) for another...