Word: locarno
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When Klee died near Locarno, in 1940, some oldsters remembered the little boy who used to see faces in the veins of his grandfather's marble-top table. His students remembered how he used to lecture at Germany's famed Bauhaus, sitting hunched over, with his back to the class. His friends remembered him stumbling silently along a beach, staring at the convolutions of a sea shell in his fist...
...bridge had spanned the years between World Wars I and II. Completed in 1918, it had been named for General Erich von Ludendorff, later to be Adolf Hitler's sponsor. Its seizure occurred nine years to the day after Hitler had brazenly violated the Versailles and Locarno Treaties by sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland...
Later Reporter Tabouis covered the making of the Locarno Pact, was as jubilant as Foreign Minister Briand for France's future. "Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!" Realistic old Uncle Jules Cambon brought Niece Tabouis down to earth. "Can't you see," he said, "that in spite of all those fools at Geneva who are congratulating themselves on Locarno, nothing has been basically altered? Geneva cannot change human nature overnight...
...three men who really ruled Britain. (The others: Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council.) Sir Robert had a hand in all the steps that led to Britain's isolation: the knifing of Locarno (when Britain would not support France against the German occupation of the Rhineland); the Anglo-German Naval Pact of 1935 (when Britain made a deal behind France's back); the Hoare-Laval deal over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain...
...Chamberlain family's peace and appeasement efforts were frustrated in the end, but when "the Lady of Locarno" died last week one of her most prized possessions was still the gold pen with which the Locarno Pact was signed. > Two other ladies of Great Britain made news last week...