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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...
Last week, Oct. 5 was definitely set as the date on which representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia will meet with Foreign Minister Stresemann and Chancellor Luther of Germany, to discuss regional agreements (TIME, Sept. 21) intended to guarantee the Rhine and Eastern frontiers of the Reich. It was announced that Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand will represent Britain and France; but that the opening of the general council of the Facist party at Rome, also on Oct. 5, will prevent Signor Mussolini from being present...
...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...
Standing at the banks of the Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...