Word: locarno
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...White Paper proposing a thumping increase in British armaments, viewing German rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...
Enter Russia. The visiting Austrians distracted nobody from Europe's major diplomatic problem: how to get Adolf Hitler to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact to nail down with mutual security guarantees all the frontiers of Eastern Europe (TIME...
...Moscow anxiety was acute lest Realmleader Hitler sidetrack Britain and France into a more mutual pact against unprovoked air aggression in Western Europe, leaving the Eastern Locarno barren and betrayed. What the Soviet Union fears is that some day Europe's Capitalist Powers will realize where their interest lies, namely in a drastic settlement of Eastern Europe's frontier problems at Bolshevik Russia's expense...
...Eastern Locarno: Germany is invited to participate in a "general settlement" embracing i) Germany's return to the League of Nations; 2) Germany's adherence to an Eastern Locarno Pact to prevent aggression in either direction across Germany's eastern frontiers; 3) acceptance by the Great Powers of Germany's present degree of rearmament even though it flatly violates the Treaty of Versailles...
...German Government," cooed Adolf Hitler, "welcomes the spirit of trustful discussion" invoked by France and Britain. With masterly omission, he ignored the Eastern Locarno and the Austrian pacts. With sure intuition, the Little Man grown big sensed that he might insert discord between Britain and France by accepting, only that part of their declaration upon which John Bull sets most store: the Air Pact against unprovoked aerial aggression. Accepting this "in principle," the Realmleader declared that his Government "is therefore willing to seek, in free accord with the powers concerned, ways and means by which such a convention...