Word: locarno
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...verbal rambles Sir John said Hitler told him at Berlin that Germany would join a pact of mutual non-aggression but not a pact pledging mutual assistance against an aggressor such as the proposed Eastern Locarno (TIME, Feb. 18). At this the Latins cut in last week with questions. How did Hitler feel, they asked, about a pact in which Germany would join other States in pledging non-aggression only, while the other States further pledged mutual aid to resist aggression...
...nearest thing to making a commitment, MacDonald & Simon joined Mussolini in solemnly reaffirming the obligations of Britain and Italy as guarantors of the original (Western) Locarno Pact, supposed to nail down the frontiers of Germany, Belgium and France (TIME...
...Further negotiation was approved by the Conference toward the faint goals of an Eastern Locarno and a pact against "unprovoked air aggression...
...Mediate?" The Stresa Conference was called to enable Britain, France and Italy to take common action in the face of 1) German rearmament, and 2) the refusal of Germany and Poland to enter military pacts for punishment of armed aggression, particularly the Eastern Locarno Pact. In London this week Sir John and Prime Minister MacDonald, who decided to go to Stresa too, seemed to have no policy except a vague notion that Britain should try to ''mediate...
...ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...