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Above, the Locarno signatories. Both dead today, French & German Pollyannas M. Aristide Briand (A) and Dr. Gustaf Stresemann (B) received the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Britain's Austen Chamberlain (C) whom George V rewarded with the Garter. Pessimist Mussolini, who received nothing, was among the original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then...
Exulted the Berliner Tageblatt after Locarno, eight years before Adolf Hitler came to power...
...Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit...
...Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered...
...joker: Statesman Mussolini is believed to have obtained a "free hand in Abyssinia" from Britain and France who need his aid in getting Germany into the Eastern Locarno. In London this week the Foreign Office announced, that Sir Sidney Barton, British Minister to Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia, had instructions to inform His Majesty that Abyssinia's proper course is "direct negotiation with Italy," not an appeal to the League (of which Abyssinia is a member) or an appeal to Britain...