Word: locarno
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...spokesman of that ideal. He appeared to the world as the counterpoise, in French politics, to the ingrained chauvinism which has made France the popular ogre of the pacifists. His truest measure is found not in the compromises to which internal policies reduced him, but in his work at Locarno and Geneva, and in the generous eloquence which now and again overcame the deep hostility of the Chamber...
...canker ate him: like many romantic boys he dreamed of being a great poet. When he fell in love (at sight) with a girl he called Diana, she encouraged his literary ambitions. He persuaded her to elope with him. they ran away to a little villa in Switzerland, near Locarno, were married before his enraged family could put a stop...
...with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister of France, Foreign Minister for the past six years,- "Man of Locarno," winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, author of the scheme for the United States of Europe, greatest orator and Master Parliamentarian of France, failed of election as President of the Republic last week, although only five days earlier he had obtained...
...First of series of Balkan conferences; at Athens, Greece. Purpose: "Balkan Locarno...
Pacemaker Henderson. "We who are gathered here are custodians of the Peace of the World," preached Uncle Arthur solemnly. "Need I remind this great assembly that two years have gone by since we resolved that, due to the Locarno agreements, it had become possible to hold a Disarmament Conference. We have not as yet assembled that great convention. Our pace is slow and the peoples of the world are growing impatient, doubtful of our good faith...