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French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted...
...German contention was ably expressed by Herr Doktor Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag. It was: If Locarno is worth anything, withdraw the occupation troops from the Rhine...
Vainly did French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand throw oil on troubled waters by supporting his Locarno policy. "It is only a beginning," he cried. "The road to peace is never the line of least resistance." But doubt remained as to whether or not "the beginning" were not the beginning of the end of Locarno...
European Socialists generally consider Foreign Minister Emile Vandervelde of Belgium the greatest French-speaking orator of their party now alive. His fame is international, his Socialism orthodox, courageous, enlightened. Therefore he did something last week, which recalled his refusal to shake hands with Signor Benito Mussolini at the Locarno Conference (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) on the imputed grounds that Il Duce is a backslidden Socialist turned traitor to "The Cause...
...Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week at the War-ravaged town of Luneville, was indiscreet to the point of eccentricity; but apparently M. Poincaré is so tired of "Locarno-talk" that...