Word: locarno
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...cinema theatres up & down the United Kingdom newsreels showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference...
...Geneva. Setting out by way of Paris, Britain's handsome young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was accompanied by the Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Halifax, generally considered pro-German. In a parting speech to the House of Commons the Foreign Secretary had indicated that since the Versailles and Locarno eggs had been broken there was nothing to do but hatch new pacts and trust Germany not to break them...
...temperament. In the present circumstances, which are serious for the future of peace, France upholds that same notion of collective security by means of the covenant which is so dear to British popular opinion. I need only ask every Englishman carefully to read once more the text of the Locarno Treaty that he may exactly take stock of the obligations resulting from...
Little Belgium. The last thing most subjects of King Edward had been in a mood to do was to read the obligations shouldered by His Majesty's Government when they signed and Britain's Parliament ratified the Locarno Pact (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925). Instead they had inclined to lend ear to Adolf Hitler's emotional claim that somehow or other the Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British...
...Locarno Treaty has been repeatedly said to be the foundation and the essential part of Belgium's international status. Germany's action in tearing it up strikes Belgium more gravely and severely than any other country. Yet Belgium has adhered firmly to her part in this pact. The German memorandum takes as a pretext a pretended violation in the Franco-Soviet pact, but Belgium had no part in nor connection with the Franco-Soviet negotiation. For us it has no consequences, for we are neither directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that...