Word: locarno
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...night session, statesmen of the Great Powers and the League of Nations sought to grapple with the Rhineland Crisis created by Adolf Hitler when he sent his troops goose-stepping onto German Rhineland soil from which they were barred by Germany's signature to the treaties of Locarno and Versailles. The sentiments of the London statesmen could not help being affected by the unprecedented methods by which Adolf Hitler was trying to win the election he ordered so as to have German ballots endorse his Rhineland treaty rupture...
...suggest. Instead his speech to the Council last week was a paraphrase of Orator Hitler's brawling Reichstag speech ten days before. Germany's excuse for remilitarizing the Rhineland remained her contention that France and Russia, by concluding a mutual assistance treaty, violated and thereby voided the Locarno Pact under which remilitarization of the Rhineland is barred as it is also barred under the Treaty of Versailles. Juridically the German case was so feeble as to be almost non-existent last week, and even the bright Brothers-in-Law Dieckhoff & von Ribbentrop were plainly out of bright ideas...
...buffer; and Poland, the one nation of consequence friendly to Germany, is unwilling to sign. Aside from the folly of forfeiting Poland's good will by an agreement which would rule out German aid to an invaded Poland, Germany would have, by the terms of the proposed "Eastern Locarno", to face the prospects of affording passage to French troops through her territory in case of a Russo-Polish disturbance. The German people have already come into contact with French troops (of all colors), and have no desire to renew the acquaintance...
...Locarno Treaty meant peace as far as western Europe was concerned, and Hitler cannot easily disguise the fact that it was national honor and no other reason that prompted its rupture two weeks ago. Even those who watched with sympathy while he tore the Versailles pact limb from limb at the beginning of his reign realize that the breaking of Locarno, a covenant freely made by the Second Reich under no compulsion whatsoever, presents quite a different problem. The question still holds: against whom is Germany defending herself? As long as the demilitarized Rhineland existed it was impossible to conceive...
...Locarno Pact has been quietly embalmed, but the ghost may walk to plague Britain yet. In such a crisis a conciliatory attitude borders dangerously upon ineffectiveness, and in this case the border has been overstepped. Hitler should feel no more bound to accept this solution than any other which has previously emanated from London. Once again the League has so expertly confused the issue and undermin?...