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Wooing Problem, Finished with an "election" in which the loss of even one per cent of the vote was surprising. Adolf Hitler last week turned back to the difficult international front where the Locarno Powers were waiting for him to make amends for his remilitarization of the Rhineland. In the glass and steel elegance of the Reichskanzler Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse, the Realmleader summoned his foreign policy favorites: Special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin Neurath, Nazi Foreign Affairs Expert Alfred Rosenberg. Germany's problem: to woo Great Britain away from France and split the Locarno Powers...
Last month the League of Nations Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Locarno Pact, had then adjourned without taking any punitive action. Playing close to the sidelines instead of in the middle of the official field, the Locarno Powers, by means of a British White Paper, had stated the terms on which they would settle the issue of Germany's treaty rupture: 1) occupation of a strip of the Rhineland frontier by British and Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court...
...country with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. On his return to London he had participated in folding up the Council of the League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet again in Geneva...
...this plain to the House: I am not prepared to be the first Foreign Secretary to go back on the British signature! . . . Many people may think the territory of France and Germany should be treated on exactly equal terms. Those, however, are not the terms of the Versailles and Locarno treaties to which Britain is bound by her signature...
...across the Celebes and Sulu Seas, a tiny, moving island of German territory on a world cruise, a bitter little passenger's war raged inside. A U. S. citizen of substance had given an interview at Singapore on Germany's violations of the Treaties of Versailles and Locarno: "I don't see how anybody can make any agreements of any kind with Germany, because she regards agreements as scraps of paper...