Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...structure of the Pact of Locarno was the following: France . and Germany pledged themselves not to be mutually aggressive, having on their side a coupie of policemen, namely, England and Italy, watching that the pledge is not violated. It was important for Italy at that moment to join England in order to guarantee peace on the Rhine, which in reality is the peace of Europe...
Article II of the "Locarno Pact"? reads: "Germany and Belgium, and Germany and France undertake to settle by peaceful means ... all questions of every kind which may arise between them...
...great and staggering significance of what was said in the Belgian Chamber officially last week is that the most pacific nation in Europe doubts that the Locarno Pact will keep the peace, and prepares to re-arm ("defensively," of course) for another...
...amazing, significant, that at Locarno, with Belgium's whole fate supposedly depending on the signing of the Pact, Foreign Minister Vandervelde was obliged to refuse to shake hands with Premier Mussolini. His Belgian Socialist constituents forbade him to take the hand that they considered had oppressed and murdered Italian Socialists. Aside from this incident?hushed up of course?M. Vandervelde furthered Locarno with his uttermost efforts...
...athletic agreement with Yale, which replaces the now defunct tripartate pact between Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, is not particularly significant in its terms. The only modification of importance, that in Section 3 of Article VI of the original pact, operates chiefly to avoid misunderstandings from over-vague wording. Aside from that, the general tendency of the new agreement seems to be to offer more freedom to the independent discretion of the respective Athletic Committees than was permitted under the old regime. Beyond the statement about post-season or sectional championship games, in fact, Yale and Harvard will in the future...