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Since then secret negotiations have been proceeding between Paris, London and Moscow. The fathers of the new scheme to keep Europe's peace are M. Barthou and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but they need a potent godfather to urge their plans upon Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Last week Sir John Simon assumed this role with Augustan magnanimity...
...binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western frontier of Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
...Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
Seasoned diplomats saw no grounds for such hysterics, recognized that Sir John had only made the opening move in an Eastern Locarno game which is likely to be long. If Adolf Hitler can be induced to sign?and by signing the Eastern Locarno he would renounce Nazidom's most cherished dreams for expansion?so much the better for peace. The opening gambit last week faced the Hitler Government with proof that Nazi Germany has been diplomatically encircled. In blazoning this encirclement to the whole world Godfather Sir John acted as he did partly because Fathers Barthou and Litvinoff...
...Before Nazidom gagged the Fatherland's jokesmiths they used to hammer out an anecdote in which Adolf Hitler, dozing at the opera, woke up to mistake a fat, gorgeously dressed Lohengrin for Göring and shouted at him: "No, Hermann! That's going...