Word: locarno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sarrail, who is being recalled to justify his policy of ruthlessness as French High Commander in Syria (TIME, Nov. 9). 2) To straddle the "capital levy" issue by demanding "an immediate sacrifice" from "all forms of wealth" instead of from "capital." 3) To secure passage for the highly popular Locarno Treaties. 4) To resume debt negotiations with the U. S. at an indefinitely later date...
...Mersin, was about to be concluded. He had been convicted as a murderer, and the presiding officer of the court martial was rising to pronounce sentence of death. Suddenly instructions were received from the Ministry of Justice to quash the proceedings. It was announced that in view of the Locarno treaties, Belgium would cease to prosecute War-guilty Germans...
...Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Minister, assured me at Locarno that England's entire naval and land forces would be at Germany's disposal if France should dare to cross our frontier with the Locarno Treaties in effect...
...When Herr Schiele was forced by the Nationalists to resign from the Cabinet, as a protest against the Locarno treaties, he broke down and sobbed on bidding us, his fellow ministers, goodbye. Previously, when asked if he approved of the Locarno Pacts, he answered with a loud and joyous...
...Situation. Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther were admittedly hard pushed last week to find means for securing ratification of the Locarno Pacts by the Reichstag. "The United Patriotic Societies" (a powerful group of die-hard Nationalists) adopted a resolution condemning the Pacts as "unacceptable, because they imply voluntary recognition of the Treaty of Versailles by Germany." The Council of Ambassadors±± at Paris hedged at setting a definite date for the evacuation of Cologne, and much as he wished to do so Herr Stresemann could not give "proofs" that the Allies are going to grant the concessions* promised Germany...