Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first undertake to fund their obligations to the U. S. Government [This is the first official intimation that the Government is using its unofficial veto power against private loans to countries which have not settled their War debts to the U. S.]; 2) That the signing of the security pact at Locarno brings closer the time when it will be appropriate for President Coolidge to summon another disarmament conference...
Suddenly a window on the second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...
Optimists declared that as a minimum of accomplishment a pact would be signed between Britain, France, Belgium and Germany, which would achieve the following results: 1) Guarantee mutually the peace and status quo of the Rhine frontier; 2) Bring Germany at once into the League of Nations, with the rights and obligations of a member state; Force Germany to make arbitration treaties between herself and the Allied powers; as well as treaties mutually guaranteeing her western frontiers with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, and providing for arbitration in that section also...
...coming to the conference anyway. But, Stresemann should insist on introducing either of these matters at the conference, matters might go to smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that she had best keep away from a Locarno pact (see RUSSIA) , she cannot but be . influenced by so powerful a neighbor and may be able to play off the Russian threat as a reason for acceding to some or all of the demands of the Allies; 3) Previous conferences have failed; those at Genoa, Cannes and The Hague broke...
...MacDonald later announced that the Labor Party was opposed to the contemplated Locarno Security Pact (see Page 12); but defended the Dawes Plan as "a step forward . . . the first great economic experiment . . . free of political prejudice." He denounced the Versailles Treaty as a "horrible settlement, iniquitous as war itself...