Word: locarno
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After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...
...sheer Geneva habit a pretense was indulged in that some of the sessions were the Council, some of them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...
Stiffening was too strong a word. The British made unanimous a decision by all Locarno Powers present that the guilt of Germany in remilitarizing the Rhineland was "clear and irrefutable." This did not prevent Captain Eden from telling Ambassador von Hoesch that, if Germany would cut down her new Rhineland garrisons to a total of only 10,000 troops, Britain might be able to wangle France into some kind of deal...
...Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian-Belgian round-robin agreement, under the terms of which Britain would specifically agree to FIGHT at any breaching of the Locarno Rhineland frontier...
...formally refuse to admit the propositions of Hitler for one reason only: I came to London to have recorded a violation of the Locarno Treaty. I shall not agree to discuss anything else than that, and, if necessary, I shall leave London and even the Council...