Word: locarno
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...Germany, shall be given a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 1) there arose last week a notable furore which centered about the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain. It threatened indeed to tarnish for the first time the glory which he won by steering the Locarno Conference to a successful conclusion (TIME...
...admission of any other state than Germany to the League Council at present; and Sir Austen found himself in a completely awkward position. His position became almost untenable, late in the week, when the British press began to hint that Sir Austen had deliberately bargained with M. Briand at Locarno, the price of French support for the Locarno Pacts being (allegedly) British support for Poland's League Council candidacy...
...open the door of the League Council to French intrigue. It is difficult to believe that he has or can obtain the support of the Cabinet. He will certainly never obtain that of the country. . . . If he persists in his present line of action, the tender shoot of Locarno will wither at birth...
...Indulgence in polemics over the question of enlargement of the Council of the League of Nations is very inconsiderate. The negotiators at Locarno did not deal with the affair, even though it had been raised several times before Locarno...
...King. With the obliging good will of constitutional monarchs, His Majesty drew his pen and signed the Locarno Pacts last week. Later he drove from the Palace of Buckingham to that of St. James's and held his first levee of the season. To St. James's came many an ambassador, came also Premier Stanley Baldwin, laced into a gold-buttoned coat, abashed beneath a huge military hat, fiddling speculatively with a sword...