Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LOCARNO (Dec. 1, 1.925) set Europe off on a decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
While President Roosevelt was hastening the wreck by withdrawing from under the World Conference his proffers of aid to international monetary stabilization, Europe received a new lead from the Four-Power Pact, conceived in progressive pessimism at Rome to get results by concrete agreements between small groups of states. Today a tempered revival of Locarno optimism, fused with post-Depression pragmatism, has evolved the momentous Eastern Locarno Pact now in the draft stages. Its signing and ratification by the Great Powers this year may put a constructive period to the confused Pact Decade...
Above, the Locarno signatories. Both dead today, French & German Pollyannas M. Aristide Briand (A) and Dr. Gustaf Stresemann (B) received the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Britain's Austen Chamberlain (C) whom George V rewarded with the Garter. Pessimist Mussolini, who received nothing, was among the original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then...
...Congress speakers were: the U. S., for failing to grant Bolsheviks a whopping loan; Japan, for invading Inner Mongolia and clashing even with Red Outer Mongolia (see p. 22); Germany, for continuing to balk France and Russia in their efforts to get that power to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July...
That the Pole sat with the German was fresh evidence of Polish coolness to France. In Warsaw same day last week rumors were circulated that Poland and Japan have signed a secret military pact hostile to Russia. This was supposed to have been blabbed by a Japanese officer who got roaring drunk at a hospitable Polish officers' mess...