Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain that the Germans understood it. ... I do not pretend that the Locarno agreement realized absolute security for France. If some one asks me whether this agreement dispenses with measures of security my answer is 'No, it does not.' But if we had not the Locarno Pact, what would be our situation in Europe? If we had nothing more than the Treaty of Versailles, think what guarantees of security we would have...
...common dangers faced". She has cemented industrial comity by new commercial treaties with Austria, France, Germany, Spain, and Czecho-Slovakia. In company with the continental nations in general, she joined the League of Nations and the World Court. With Italy, France, and Britain, she was party to the Locarno pact: and it is significant of lingering fears, that M. Vandevelde values most highly the specific German-Belgian arbitration convention appended to the treaty...
...Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable only in provincials from Idaho and Wisconsin...
...That the U. S. would not become a party to any security pact guaranteeing the boundaries or rights of any European country...
...Rhineland Security Treaty was of course not signed by M. Benes or Count Skrzynski, since neither Czechoslovakia nor Poland participates in the pact to guarantee the peace of the Rhine frontier. When the Arbitration and Guarantee Treaties were passed around, however, they had an-opportunity to sign agreements which are expected to make the frontiers between their countries and Germany vastly more secure...