Word: locarno
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...French Cabinet has made the necessary gesture and now Beethoven's music is to be performed and his centenary this year officially celebrated by the French Republic. Again the spirit of Locarno walks abroad and soon the movements of a symphony will bring again to mind the well cooked courses of the trout concerto. The wave of a French baton over a German score will add a pretty flourish to the hopeful tune of "Hands Across the Rhine...
...many of them, for instance, could outline the duties and sphere of action of the Permanent Court of International Justice, or if the 700 odd who would support some wars and not others, know the League of Nations Council definition of an aggressive war, and the details of the Locarno agreement. The resolution on the cooperative system displays a very hazy grasp of economic theory. Do its supporters know the successes and failures in cooperative marketing in Great Britain and the United States? Have they studied statistics? What do they mean by workers sharing in the control...
...prize a tribute to the committee which he chairmaned, though the reputed $16,000 will of course go to him. The rest of the 1925 prize, and the two halves of the 1926 prize were awarded last week respectively to the three Foreign Ministers who were the authors of Locarno: Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), Aristide Briand (France), Gustav Stresemann (Germany). All four recipients received their prizes by proxy at Oslo, the Capital of Norway, last week. By the will of Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) awards the Nobel Peace Prizes. Last week King Haakon...
...Assembly of the League of Nations adjourned last week after a momentous session lasting 20 days (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) during which Germany was admitted to the League, the question of permanent League Council seats was adjusted, and the Locarno Pacts were finally rendered operative by the deposit of their ratifications with the League Secretariat...
...Alfonso's limousine was heard. His Majesty gave to Lady Chamberlain his arm. Her Majesty was escorted by lank, bemonacled Sir Austen. British Royalty, having previously entertained their Spanish Majesties at Buckingham was not present. All dined in the great room in which was signed the Treaty of Locarno, (TIME, Dec. 14, LEAGUE...