Word: locarno
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From this stopgap victory in the Chamber, M. Briand hastened to defend the Locarno Pacts, then up for ratification before the Senate...
...booming voice of M. Miller and was already delivering the left-handed benediction of the Nationalists upon Locarno. "In rejecting this treaty we would have the appearance of seeking to isolate ourselves, not only from Germany but from our Allies, who have signed it. That is neither our wish nor to our interest...
Ninety minutes later there was scarcely a dry eye in the Senate. The cheering had become continuous. When he could not longer be heard, M. Briand signaled for a vote. The Locarno Treaties were ratified...
...Geneva Protocol" (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.) by which the Latin nations hoped to "put teeth into the League." Britain, aware that the U. S. possesses an antipathy to joining a league whose "teeth" might become U. S. soldiers, sidetracked the Protocol, for which was substituted the "regional" Locarno security agreements. The Latin nations continue to protest that teeth must be put into the League before it can bite the armed enemies of peace...
...profit only by the disarmament of her potential foes, the German delegation had every incentive to further the proceedings at Geneva last week and made good use of its opportunities?Herr von Bernstorff declaring, for example, that the German foreign policy "is now completely dominated by the spirit of Locarno...