Word: locarno
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...which, I guarantee, would have taken place had Germany not left the League and had not her internal actions regarding arms been shrouded from that day in mystery." In left-handed language Government Spokesman Baldwin then hinted that Germany ought to rejoin the League and subscribe to the Eastern Locarno Pact, a hint strongly repeated in Paris three days later by French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. He then told Britons that "there is no ground at this moment for undue alarm or panic" since His Majesty's Government is rapidly strengthening the Royal Air Force. "What is now happening...
Thus all in one breath France pressed Germany again to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact, under which Nazis would have to renounce their "Rosenberg Plan" to expand into Baltic territory (TIME, May 28), and associated Paris with London's rebuke to Berlin last week for rearming in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
...project of an Eastern Locarno was cherished by Louis Barthou at the time of his assassination. What could be more in harmony with the romantic ideal of poetic justice than that the unrest growing out of his death should be used to foster this scheme...
...brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
...largely responsible for bringing Russia into the League of Nations, for guiding Italy towards a greater understanding of the Anglo-French outlook, and it was his sincere mission to achieve a closer alliance with the English-speaking nations,--not to mention his part in the formation of the Eastern Locarno Pact. He was one of the most enlightened ministers in France since Poincare...