Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locarno Pact has been quietly embalmed, but the ghost may walk to plague Britain yet. In such a crisis a conciliatory attitude borders dangerously upon ineffectiveness, and in this case the border has been overstepped. Hitler should feel no more bound to accept this solution than any other which has previously emanated from London. Once again the League has so expertly confused the issue and undermin?...
...Locarno Treaty has been repeatedly said to be the foundation and the essential part of Belgium's international status. Germany's action in tearing it up strikes Belgium more gravely and severely than any other country. Yet Belgium has adhered firmly to her part in this pact. The German memorandum takes as a pretext a pretended violation in the Franco-Soviet pact, but Belgium had no part in nor connection with the Franco-Soviet negotiation. For us it has no consequences, for we are neither directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that...
After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...
...sessions were the Council, some of them were the plenipotentiaries of the Locarno Powers, excepting Germany (i. e., Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and some were the League Sanctions Committee. Yet the same statesmen turned up again & again. An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers...
...professional diplomat would recognize as aces in their line. They said that Dr. Gaus had made the discovery, after analyzing all treaties concerned, that legally the League cannot punish Germany's present treaty violations by sanctions. This "discovery" the Poles, though they have a ten-year non-aggression pact with Hitler, greeted by sarcastically remarking in London, "Germany is making it easier for us to support France...