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...polished phrases came as a gloss upon the following situation. The enforcement of the status quo has been taken out of the hands of the League, for the moment, and is being attempted by making "regional security agreements" among the powers (see INTERNATIONAL). If these agreements fail, the powers are likely to return to the League and to something resembling the Protocol. If they are successful, Germany will almost certainly be brought within the League, and the assistance of the League made use in administering the regional compact treaties...
...where Premier Baldwin is vacationing, France and England were prepairing to call in Germany to draw up a Security Pact,† which would largely take the place of the League Protocol. The World stood by and wondered, as statesmen-accoucheurs labored to bring forth a robust infant, Status Quo, in two places at once...
...With the fall of the Protocol statemen abandoned the League as a valid champion of the status quo and returned toward the old system of security compacts or treaties. Germany cried aloud that she needed to be protected, and offered: a) To forget Alsace, b) To guarantee the French and possibly the Polish Czecho-Slovakia frontiers (TIME, Aug. 13) in return for guarantees as to her own safety from Britain and France. Since then the exchange of "notes" and "conversations" has been endless. Britain has shown an inclination toward the business and has talked about having Germany enter the League...
...Quai d'Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status quo on the frontier between France and Germany (TIME, June 22). For this had M. Briand braved La Manche (the English Channel...
Early in the year Germany intimated to France that she was willing in the interests of peace to guarantee the status quo of the frontier dividing Germany from France and Belgium, but specifically left for peaceful negotiations all questions relative to the boundary which separates the Reich from Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. Britain later agreed, subject to parliamentary ratification, to guarantee the powers on both sides of the Franco-Belgo-German frontier against unprovoked aggression...