Word: locarno
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...Office took charge of all details. M. Barthou, who crossed the channel for a personal conference with Sir John, ostentatiously returned last week to Paris. British public opinion was prepared for what was coming by a few intimations that what Europe needs is a return to "the Spirit of Locarno." Nine years ago at Locarno, Switzerland, gold pens squiggled in the hands of Benito Mussolini, Austen Chamberlain, and the late great peace men of France and Germany. Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann. Today the Locarno Treaty, still in full force, binds all the signatory powers to maintain unchanged the western...
That Britain is acting only as godfather, Sir John Simon crisply made clear when he rose to give the Eastern Locarno its first public airing last week in the House of Commons. "We are not undertaking any new obligation," he insisted. "We under take no obligation at all!" But Sir John then threw the full moral weight of His Majesty's Government behind the following peace program...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States to sign an Eastern Locarno pact of "mutual assistance" pledging each other to maintain their present frontiers...
Harold Nicolson tells the story of Arketall, Lord Curzon's famous valet, who was unreasonably fond of the bottle. Lord Curzon was at Locarno, or some such place, representing Great Britain at big peace negotiation. As the day for signing the Pact approached, Arketall got more and more irregular in his habits, and on the morning of "Der Tag," he was quite in his cups. Sitting in bed, with his morning cup of tea, the great British diplomat gave Arketall the sack, told him to decamp within a half-an-hour. An hour later, hurriedly dressing for the meeting...
...Cabinet's Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, was scheduled to make that night. "Any nation which deliberately prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend in this civilized world!" To reassure France further, he invoked the Locarno Treaty of 1925, negotiated by Britain's Sir Austen Chamberlain and France's late great Peace Man Aristide Briand to protect the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against aggression. "What Britain has signed she will adhere to!" cried Mr. Baldwin. "She adhered to her signature regarding Belgium. . . . Her signature...