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...villa Pessimist Avenol settled down to wait for chaos. He was roused by French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou's project for an Eastern Locarno Pact in which was implicit the idea that Russia as a major signatory should enter the League (TIME, July 23). This week the League Council and Assembly will meet in Geneva and M. Avenol was aquiver with hope and expectation that the League will more than make up for its loss of Japan and Germany by gaining Soviet Russia...
Stewardship. Little notice has been taken abroad of Premier Doumergue's manifold stewardship. In the realm of diplomacy his Government has all but isolated Germany, won Russia's strong support and obtained the backing of Britain and Italy for the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July 23). When Premier Doumergue took office France was embroiled in bitter tariff and quota disputes with Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. Now all of these have been ironed out by trade treaties. Only in arming France has Gastounet been extravagant. He has forced through supplemental appropriations of over three billion francs...
...Eastern Locarno to be "genuinely reciprocal" in that, while it should embody fixation of frontiers which many Germans wish to burst, it should also lay down "the principle of German equality rights under a system of security for all nations...
...House a cablegram from Premier Mussolini throwing Italy's full weight into the scale with Britain, France and Russia. Playing his stern godfather role to the limit Sir John cabled to Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
Seasoned diplomats saw no grounds for such hysterics, recognized that Sir John had only made the opening move in an Eastern Locarno game which is likely to be long. If Adolf Hitler can be induced to sign?and by signing the Eastern Locarno he would renounce Nazidom's most cherished dreams for expansion?so much the better for peace. The opening gambit last week faced the Hitler Government with proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff...