Word: locarno
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...miracle of Locarno is that there has sprung up in Europe for the first time since the War the will to peace. If the promise at Locarno is fulfilled the peace we have built up in Western Europe is a prelude to the peace that will ultimately be built up throughout the whole of Europe...
...interval in which everyone asked: "What will Britannia say to this?" There came the answer of British newspaperdom: "It is almost incredible that a British officer should have done such a thing . . . that a man in public life should choose the hour when peace and amity were dawning at Locarno, to revive one of the most unsavory stories...
Under the chairmanship of President von Hindenburg the Cabinet of the Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development...
...Parliamentary leaders began to predict a safe majority in the Reichstag for the Locarno pacts...
Suddenly came action abrupt and typically decisive from the Monarchists, who abhor Locarno and all its works. At a caucus of the Nationalist Reichstag deputies a resolution was adopted condemning "the results of the Locarno treaties at present available...