Word: locarno
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Said Signer Mussolini, in extenso, to explain and defend his well-known anti-Locarno -and anti-League policy...
...structure of the Pact of Locarno was the following: France . and Germany pledged themselves not to be mutually aggressive, having on their side a coupie of policemen, namely, England and Italy, watching that the pledge is not violated. It was important for Italy at that moment to join England in order to guarantee peace on the Rhine, which in reality is the peace of Europe...
...something better was done at Locarno, it was the operation of the pure chemistry of distillation; the spirit of Locarno was manufactured. Gentlemen, the spirit of Locarno today, at scarcely two years' distance, is extraordinarily discolored [hilarity...
...Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
...amazing, significant, that at Locarno, with Belgium's whole fate supposedly depending on the signing of the Pact, Foreign Minister Vandervelde was obliged to refuse to shake hands with Premier Mussolini. His Belgian Socialist constituents forbade him to take the hand that they considered had oppressed and murdered Italian Socialists. Aside from this incident?hushed up of course?M. Vandervelde furthered Locarno with his uttermost efforts...