Word: locarno
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Since the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the Kingdom of the Belgians has relied not on its ancient neutrality but upon the League of Nations, the Locarno Pact and more especially upon the British and the French for protection against an other onslaught. In recent months the British have not only winked at German violations of the Treaty of Versailles but have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand...
Egypt-Although Captain Anthony Eden, the youngest (39) British Foreign Secretary since Earl Granville (36), in 1851, was suffering from an attack of chicken pox last week, just before he went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
...Locarno and neutrality toward Spain...
...Germany and Italy have accepted invitations to a renewed Locarno conference. Not least important have been the concessions made by Great Britain in concluding a new treaty of amity with Egypt...