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...LOCARNO (Dec. 1, 1.925) set Europe off on a decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...wreck by withdrawing from under the World Conference his proffers of aid to international monetary stabilization, Europe received a new lead from the Four-Power Pact, conceived in progressive pessimism at Rome to get results by concrete agreements between small groups of states. Today a tempered revival of Locarno optimism, fused with post-Depression pragmatism, has evolved the momentous Eastern Locarno Pact now in the draft stages. Its signing and ratification by the Great Powers this year may put a constructive period to the confused Pact Decade...
...prominent Congress speakers were: the U. S., for failing to grant Bolsheviks a whopping loan; Japan, for invading Inner Mongolia and clashing even with Red Outer Mongolia (see p. 22); Germany, for continuing to balk France and Russia in their efforts to get that power to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July...
...Shall they demand that Germany, in exchange for recognition of her rearmament, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and re-enter the League of Nations...
...Eastern Locarno. Assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...