Word: locarno
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...diplomats last week repeated the word again and again-assurances that will convince Russia that the West wants peace, assurances against renewed fighting in Korea, assurances to quiet France's fears of reborn Germany. Britain's Winston Churchill spoke up again for four-power talks to negotiate Locarno-type assurances between Russia and the West. At the U.N., where U.S. Secretary of State Dulles had set the tone by recognizing Russia's right to assurances against hostile encirclement (TIME, Sept. 28), France's Maurice Schumann carried the matter further. "No nation understands better than France what...
...vote-getting possibilities of this broad public conviction form an irresistible temptation to British politicians. Aneurin Bevan was the first to recognize them; Churchill, his mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...
...achieve substantial effects in the West with means-a dismantled frontier gate, the freeing of a William Oatis-which neither cost them much nor relaxed their grip on power. It was all neatly timed: the French were fumbling in disorder; Sir Winston Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling into a Communist trap...
...Locarno. The West should be prepared to offer Moscow assurances against attack from a united and rearmed Germany. He harked back to the 1925 Locarno Pact-"the highest point that we reached between the wars." Locarno, explained Churchill, "was based upon the remarkable provision that if Germany attacked France we would stand with the French, and that if France attacked Germany we would stand with the Germans...
Churchill proposed to apply the principle of Locarno to Russia and Germany, the West threatening punishment to whichever one first attacked the other. "Russia has the right to feel assured that the terrible events of the Hitler invasion would never be repeated and that Poland would remain a friendly power and a buffer, though not. I hope, a puppet...