Word: locarno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eastern Locarno. Louis Barthou was born the son of a poor tinsmith. His family scrimped to pay for the education that turned him out a brilliant lawyer. All his life he has been a charmer, naturally eloquent, instinctively elegant, yet with plenty of brain power and force. His rise in the Chamber and through the cabinets of men now mostly forgotten was meteoric. In the year before the War he formed his first Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder...
...considered last week a mere formality, since M. Barthou had apparently corralled more than enough votes to put through the Assembly balloting this week. In Paris, therefore, the Gascon grandfather was again something of a hero. There remained, however, the fateful issue of his larger scheme, the Eastern Locarno Pact...
...Barthou effort to encircle Germany was originally rebuffed by Britain, but approved when he modified it into the form of an Eastern Locarno Pact that was to be signed by Russia, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States, all mutually pledging military aid to keep the present frontiers of Germany fixed (TIME, July...
...wring an answer out of Poland as to whether she will or will not sign an "Eastern Locarno" nailing down Germany's frontiers (TIME, July...
...drive of the Third International for "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." He has not abandoned that great aim, pledges and repledges himself to it in addresses to the Russian people. But Britain, France and Italy, intent on nailing down the frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno, want Russia in the League. They brought tremendous pressure on all Europe's little dissenters, even pulled wires in Latin America...