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...Vallett, another Nationalist deputy, speaking shortly after M. Taittinger, said that he opposed the pact because if would lead Germany to believe that she was being encircled. Such sentiments are truly encouraging when they come from a French Nationalist, and may possibly open the way to a new Eastern Locarno far quicker than a dual pact with Soviet Russia, which would have the double effect of alienating the Little Entente as well as Germany and Poland. If the Left can come to some agreement with the Right on this issue and abandon the policy of "einkreisung" which has been such...
Paris. Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
Statesmen of "eleven nations" gathered in the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office last week for the opening of a new Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
...Locarno Room, after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had strewed a few autumn leaves of noncommittal oratory, proceedings opened with this double-barreled deadlock: 1) Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osami Nagano ultimatumed that nothing else was to be discussed until naval parity was conceded to Japan. Britain counted on the U. S. to bear the brunt of insisting that the 5-5-3 ratio be maintained with Japan at the short end. 2) Italy, while expecting 5-5-3 to dynamite the conference, was adamant in her standing demand for naval parity with France, which in turn maintained her standing refusal...
...British Foreign Office's "Locarno Room" (the great red-&-gold, frescoed hall where the famed treaties negotiated at Locarno were formally signed just ten years ago), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will open the Conference. The chiefs of the French, Italian, Japanese and U. S. delegations will reply to his address and many brave words of hope will be spoken. But when the gentlemen adjourn to begin their real work in Clarence House, a handsome Georgian edifice resembling a U. S. college dormitory, there will be little bravery in their hearts...