Word: locarno
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...inviting Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann to sit informally at a Council meeting called to arrive at some compromise. The Germans adroitly "declined" and held to their position: That Germany had applied for League membership only on the basis of the League status quo at the time of the Locarno agreements, and would withdraw her application if not alone seated permanently on the Council...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...
...fact that is was Brazil, and not a European nation, that blocked the admission of Germany to the council is significant. Under the present covenant unanimity of the conciliar powers is necessary in the granting of permanent seats. Because of this, Brazil though not concerned in the Locarno treaties, was able to sacrifice their fulfillment to her own ambitions. The countries which had promised to restore Germany to her place among the great powers, found themselves unable to do so in face of outside opposition...
Optimism. Although no one supposed that M. Briand could have rolled up such a majority on any issue but Locarno, the political horizon was deemed so clear that President Herriot of the Chamber departed on a visit to Lyons, of which city he is Mayor. The President of the Republic announced his intention of leaving Paris for a few days to open the Lyons Spring Fair. Finance Minister Doumer cabled to London and proposed to resume the Franco-British debt negotiations. An almost ominous optimism prevailed...
...there was poison in the Locarno Loving Cup!" Who said...