Word: locarno
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Five Premiers, 16 Foreign Ministers and numberless secretaries journeyed toward Geneva, last week, on their way to attend the extraordinary session of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations especially convoked for the purpose of admitting Germany to the League, as provided for in the Locarno Treaties...
Waiting Delegates. Meantime, not far away, Germany's delegates waited, not in hopes and dreams, but pondering what they knew would be two causes to delay translation of the words of Locarno into action: 1) political upheavals in France which robbed the French delegate temporarily of his right to vote; 2) deadlock over the creation in the Council of seats for Brazil and Spain. They refused to commit Germany to any policy to be pursued once she should be admitted to the League. They waited...
...delegates waited too, to see how another matter that the president had not mentioned was going to develop. They watched particularly a certain delegate who looked a trifle harassed. Upon him and upon affairs in Paris hung quite a little "old business" that would come up before the Locarno could be fulfilled...
Earlier in the week, Premier Baldwin of Britain barely tided over an open Cabinet split on this issue, and the British press continued to flay "Monsieur" Chamberlain for having allegedly gained M. Briand's support at Locarno by promising to champion France's ally, Poland, before the League...
...question of the Locarno agreement, which has been, since it was first drawn up last fall, one of vital importance and interest throughout the whole world, has come into particular prominence during the last week. On account of the crisis in the situation concerning Germany's entrance into the League of Nations Council, the security, which the Locarno pact promised to the nations of Western Europe, has been threatened...