Word: locarno
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...Belgian Chamber. "For the first time in history the British Government has defined in advance the course it would take in a given emergency," he cried. ''This unprecedented step was due to the fact that Belgium has so clearly given [Germany] no excuse for breaking the Locarno Treaty...
After luncheon and a total of three hours in which Germany's friends had time to telephone Berlin and attempt in London their most hectic wangles, the question whether Germany is guilty of violating the Locarno Pact was for the first time formally voted on by the League Council. The Councilman from Ecuador was absent, the Councilman from Chile abstained. ''Guilty!" said the eleven votes of Argentina, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey. No one voted "Not Guilty...
Peace without Punishment. In signing the Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec 14, 1925), Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium agreed that a formal decision by the League of Nations that it had been violated should "automatically" bring punitive measures against the treaty-breaker and free the injured parties to make appropriate use of their armed forces...
Finally the officially injured Locarno Powers (Britain, France, Italy and Belgium) adopted and sent to the guilty State proposals which M. Flandin said were the minimum France could accept and which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said were submitted to evoke from Germany either acceptance or counter proposals. Exhausted Mr. Eden then took a nap in the Foreign Office, after which he motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain...
...German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact is adjudicated by the Permanent Court for International Justice at The Hague...