Word: pact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. On his return to London he had participated in folding up the Council of the League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet again in Geneva...
After luncheon and a total of three hours in which Germany's friends had time to telephone Berlin and attempt in London their most hectic wangles, the question whether Germany is guilty of violating the Locarno Pact was for the first time formally voted on by the League Council. The Councilman from Ecuador was absent, the Councilman from Chile abstained. ''Guilty!" said the eleven votes of Argentina, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey. No one voted "Not Guilty...
Peace without Punishment. In signing the Locarno Pact (TIME, Dec 14, 1925), Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium agreed that a formal decision by the League of Nations that it had been violated should "automatically" bring punitive measures against the treaty-breaker and free the injured parties to make appropriate use of their armed forces...
...German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact is adjudicated by the Permanent Court for International Justice at The Hague...
...Rome this week the Dictator signed with Austria and Hungary a pact wherein Italy is said to guarantee Austria against the long-threatened move of Germany to absorb the Vienna regime. In an oration virtually predicting European war at no distant date Benito Mussolini cried, "The wheels of Destiny are running fast!" He made world headlines once more with a new version of the grand old news that Italy's guilds or corporazioni are some day going to be invested with the powers of Italy's political Chamber of Deputies...