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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Parliament opened last week and the House of Commons ratified the Locarno Treaties by a vote of 375 to 13, thus setting a great seal of triumph upon the labors of two men named Chamberlain, one living and one dead-Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who negotiated the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL), and Joseph Chamberlain, beloved and fearless Victorian champion of Empire, whose darling wish it was that his son Austen should grow up into a statesman whose diplomacy should transcend even the limits of the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Day | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...that they will render war infinitely more difficult. . . . It will be almost impossible for a signatory nation to make war without clearly putting itself in the wrong before the whole civilized world and bearing the odium of such wrongdoing. . . . I should like to say that the success of the Locarno conference was essentially due to the high character of the representatives of Germany and France. . . . 'The spirit of Locarno' epitomized and was animated by a sincere desire for peace and reconciliation on the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Day | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Macdonald: Why were the Locarno Treaties consummated without consulting the Dominions? . . . I cannot conceive of so insular a system of conducting the imperial foreign policy as other than calamitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Day | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Macdonald: "Was it the idea of Locarno to detach Germany from any co-operation with Russia and set up a League bloc of states against Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Day | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Germany, does not match his personal inclination. If he could rule without the bonds imposed by his Constitutional oath, he might manage many things differently. But with him, sworn duty is something holy. Therefore it is self-evident that relying on his Chancellor and Ministers he should regard the Locarno policy as progress along the hard road leading to the recovery of Germany's freedom of action. It is easy to understand that this fact leaves the Nationalists helplessly confused. In the Presidential campaign they raised the authority of Hindenburg's person so high that they naturally fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Allied Evacuation | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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