Word: locarno
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...ministerial declaration, which had been made so noncommital that it did not even pledge the Cabinet to take steps for Germany's entrance into the League of Nations, although Dr. Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann are personally pledged to such a policy by their action in putting through the Locarno Pacts, which specifically require that Germany shall enter the League (TIME...
That such an apparently hopeless three-cornered deadlock is considered "tolerably workable," arises from the fact that the Socialists have long followed the policy of "benevolent abstention from voting" which last December allowed the Luther-Stresemann minority Government to carry through the Locarno negotiations despite the opposition of the Right...
...When the Locarno Pacts actually came up before the Reichstag, the Socialists momentarily ceased to abstain and helped Chancellor Luther to railroad the Pacts through. Their "price" for this aid was announced to have been Chancellor Luther's scrupulously fulfilled promise to resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody...
Signer Maffi, leader of the minute Communist Opposition in the Italian Chamber, flayed the Locarno Pacts when they were presented for ratification last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra...
Married. Miss Dorothy Payne, a stenographer of Sir Austen Chamberlain's, able typer of the original of the Treaty of Locarno, to John Sterndale Bennett, a secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain, now promoted to a British diplomatic post in Chile; at London...