Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamberlain, M. Briand and Herr Stresemann, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Germany, set out last week with a host of lesser diplomats for the little village of Locarno, Switzerland, to try to negotiate a security pact which has as its essence the definite guaranteeing of the peace of the Rhineland. Their chances of success and the form which the fruits of their negotiations would take were contrarily predicted as follows...
...Spanish Resolution was introduced (with the approval of France and the consent of England) praising the efforts of League members to make "regional security treaties," such as the proposed Rhine Pact. Count Quinones' words and resolution were innocuously bland. Specifically he proposed that when regional security pacts had been drawn up by the interested parties the League "should examine them, in order to report to the Seventh [next] Assembly on the progress of security." In essence the intention of the Count was to lay a flower on the grave of the Protocol, (TIME, Sept. 21) which was once...
France had been intending to convene her Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...
...looking simultaneously towards Geneva and Aix-les-Bains. It was all due to the Protocol.* At Geneva the French were trying to revamp the Protocol before the League. At Aix, where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
...return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League. Now it seems that an extra-League Security Pact is to be drawn...