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...months ago? What chance is there that Germany may be appeased by being given some British mandated territory? Is anything going to be done about Germany's refortification of Helgoland in violation of the Versailles Treaty and in direct menace to Britain? Is Germany coming to the next Locarno Conference to which are also invited Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium? As these questions emerged in debate, Captain Eden handled them with not much more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo...
Last week Britain, France and Belgium had invited Italy to sit later this month at Brussels on a conference as to what is to be done, if anything, about Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact by remilitarizing the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). After the Vienna broadcast it was sharply announced in Rome that Germany must be invited to Brussels and must accept before Italy will even consider sitting in, and Il Duce tagged on a few more things he wants before sending an Italian diplomat even to talk about Locarno...
...sending troops into the Rhineland early in March Germany violated the treaties of (1 London and St. Germain, 2 Lausanne and Stresa, 3 Vienna and Berlin, 4 Locarno and Versailles, S Paris and Geneva...
...Munch moved that the Ethiopian question be kept on the League's agenda, the Council voted unanimously to postpone further discussion until an extraordinary session of the League, called for June 15. Next day, Benito Mussolini stiffened further. Declining to participate in any discussions, even among the Locarno signatories, until the League should acknowledge the Ethiopian issue closed, he abruptly ordered the entire Italian delegation back to Rome...
...Atatürk assuring him of a treaty-revising conference "without delay." Soviet Russia hastened to assure Turkey of its backing. Though the Italian Foreign Office kept mum, Italian officials privately protested that "a situation would be created equally serious as Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact." Except from Italy's point of view, this was hardly true. The original peace treaty with Turkey was the ignominious Treaty of Sévres which stripped Turkey and partitioned it into French and Italian "spheres of influence." Outraged Turks rose behind the "Grey Wolf" and proceeded to chase...