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...four acts asked of Germany: 1) return to the League of Nations; 2) renunciation of Nazi ambitions to incorporate Austria in the Fatherland. Germany joining Britain, France and Italy in guaranteeing the independence of Austria; 3) adherence by Germany to the proposed Eastern Locarno Pact under which all nations east of the Rhine* would mutually respect and guarantee each other's present frontiers; 4) adherence by Germany to a British-French-Italian-Belgian pact to resist "unprovoked air aggression" by whatsoever nation committed. The concession: In return for the foregoing German peace acts the Great Powers offered to release...
Last Roundup. Fresh surprises cooked by Adolf Hitler were expected to be served when and if Sir John asks this week whether Germany is prepared to return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to an all-Europe pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). The British Foreign Secretary then returns to London, while the Lord Privy Seal speeds on to Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague...
Since Britain has been slated to play the role of honest broker between Germany, France and Russia in the proposed Eastern Locarno Peace effort (TIME, Feb. 18), His Majesty's Government found this week that they must take whatever initiative had to be taken in retort to Adolf Hitler. Visibly perturbed, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rushed to London from a holiday in South Wales...
...expected to go to Berlin next Sunday and offer Adolf Hitler some easement from the Treaty of Versailles as part of a bargain. In exchange for the easement Germany was to agree to rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack pot. The game was over...
...student in a sheltered American university, it is scarcely conceivable that in the ten years since the signing of the Locarno Pacts such a change can have come over Europe. But the fact of chief significance for those graduating this year, and in the two or three years succeeding, is that from now on the war-clouds will dominate the conduct of international relations, whether commercial or diplomatic. That economic life will suffer goes without saying. The tension under which Europe is now laboring cannot last. It may lessen for as much as a year or two. But economic...