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	Locarno Treaties: 1925
		The Locarno Treaties were meant to improve this tense post-war situation by reaching compromises in order to help prevent future wars.
		Austin Chamberlain of England, one of the leaders at Locarno, was accurate in calling it "the real dividing point between the years of war and the years of peace".
		The treaties would assure that the frontiers between Germany and France and between Germany and Belgium be kept.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/World/Locarno.html (540 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Locarno Treaties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The principal treaty concluded at Locarno was that between Germany, France, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, under which the first three signatories undertook not to attack each other, with the latter two acting as guarantors.
		The Locarno Treaties were regarded as the keystone of the improved western European diplomatic climate of the period 1924-1930, though tension persisted in eastern Europe.
		The "spirit of Locarno" was seen in Germany's September 1926 admission to the League of Nations, the international organization established under the Versailles treaty to promote world peace and co-operation, and in the subsequent withdrawal (completed in June 1930) of Allied troops from Germany's western Rhineland.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Locarno_Treaties (394 words)

	AllRefer.com - Locarno Pact (Treaties And Alliances) - Encyclopedia
		The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the approval of Aristide Briand; under the leadership of Briand, Stresemann, and Austen Chamberlain, a series of treaties of mutual guarantee and arbitration were signed.
		In the major treaty the powers individually and collectively guaranteed the common boundaries of Belgium, France, and Germany as specified in the Treaty of Versailles of 1919.
		Germany also signed arbitration treaties with France and Belgium, and mutual defense pacts against possible German aggression were concluded between France and Poland and France and Czechoslovakia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LocarnoP.html (282 words)

	The Locarno Protocol, 1925
		The present treaty, which is designed to insure the maintenance of peace and is in conformity with the Covenant of the League of Nations, shall not be interpreted as restricting the duty of the League to take whatever action may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of the world.
		The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be deposited at Geneva in the archives of the League of Nations as soon as possible.
		Nothing in the present treaty shall affect the rights and obligations of the High Contracting Parties as Members of the League of Nations, or shall be interpreted as restricting the duty of the League to take whatever action may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of the world.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1918p/locarno.html (6493 words)

	Locarno, Treaties of - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Locarno, Treaties of, series of seven agreements designed to promote the security of western Europe at the end of World War I. The treaties were signed by representatives from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Poland in Locarno, Switzerland, on October 16, 1925.
		The first of the Locarno treaties guaranteed the common boundaries of France, Germany, and Belgium.
		Although France signed security treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, the treaties did not offer the same frontier recognition to the countries on Germany's eastern borders.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761579490__1/Locarno_Treaties_of.html (301 words)

	The School Network: The Locarno Treaties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland on 5-16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on December 1, in which the World War I western European Allied powers and the new states of central and eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, in return normalising relations with defeated Germany.
		The Locarno Treaties were regarded as the keystone of the improved western European diplomatic climate of the period 1924-30, though tension persisted in eastern Europe.
		The "spirit of Locarno" was seen in Germany's September 1926 admission to the League of Nations, the international organisation established under the Versailles treaty to promote world peace and co-operation, and in the subsequent withdrawal (completed in June 1930) of Allied troops from Germany's western Rhineland.
	www.school-resource.com /c/locarno-treaties (406 words)

	Treaties of Locarno
		The Treaties of Locarno were hailed as the dawn of a new era of peace and the French Foreign Secretary, Aristide Briand, "received a hero’s welcome" in Paris.
		Prior to the Locarno treaty, Articles 42-44 of the Treaty of Versailles gave Britain the right, but not the obligation, to go to war in case of any "hostile act".
		"Rather than being a guarantee against invasion, Locarno was a guarantee of victory". German troops entered the Rhineland in March of 1936, declaring that the situation specified by the Locarno treaties had changed because of the Franco-Soviet alliance of 1935.
	www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/germany/weimar/treaties_of_locarno.htm (678 words)

	Locarno, Treaties of - MSN Encarta
		The treaties were to operate within the framework of the League of Nations, which Germany joined in 1926.
		German leader Adolf Hitler denounced the principal Locarno Treaty and ordered the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936.
		Germany's aggression, unchallenged by the other signatories of the Locarno treaties, resulted in World War II.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579490/Locarno_Treaties_of.html (224 words)

	Rebuilding International Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It guaranteed the inviolability of the French-German-Belgium border and the Rhineland.
		Locarno was widely hailed as a harbinger of a new era of peace and international collaboration.
		The spirit of Locarno was reinforced by the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
	www.appstate.edu /~brantzrw/history3134/REBUILDING.HTML (2602 words)

	Locarno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Locarno is a city located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona.
		The Locarno Treaties were negotiated here in 1925.
		In January 2004, the Italian historian Marino Vigano speculated that Locarno's castle may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locarno (185 words)

	Locarno in Diplomacy - The Conference and the Treaties, 5 October - 1 December 1925 Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		France was instead to sign separate guarantee treaties with Czechoslovakia and Poland, and the text of the Pact was redrafted so as to allow France to take military action against Germany in the event of a League decision to respond to a German attack upon either of these states.
		The Council of the League was also required to rule on alleged breaches of the treaty; and Britain and Italy were, as guarantors, only obliged to intervene without awaiting such a decision in the event of a 'flagrant contravention' of the treaty.
		The Locarno Treaties belonged to the decade in which they were conceived and their true significance may ultimately lie less in the principles they enshrined than in the spirit they engendered.
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	The Locarno Suite Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		When the Treaties were initialled at Locarno in Switzerland in October 1925, the delegates agreed to come to London for the formal signing of the Treaty in December that same year.
		The room in which the Locarno Treaties were signed was known in 1925 as the Reception Room, although the Gaumont Film Company's newsreel showing the ceremony described it as the 'Gold Room'.
		In 1935 the Locarno Suite was chosen for the opening session of the International Naval Conference, and during the State Visit of President Lebrun of France in March 1939, a splendid dinner party in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took place there, prior to a theatrical entertainment staged in Durbar Court.
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	Treaty of Locarno
		Joyfully and wholeheartedly we welcome the great development in the European concept of peace that has its origin in this meeting at Locarno, and as the Treaty of Locarno, is destined to be a landmark in the history of the relations of States and peoples to each other.
		We have undertaken the responsibility of initialling the treaties because we live in the faith that only by peaceful cooperation of States and peoples can that development be secured, which is nowhere more important than for that great civilized land of Europe whose peoples have suffered so bitterly in the years that lie behind us.
		Locarno is not to be the end but the beginning of confident cooperation among the nations.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERlocarno.htm (1212 words)

	The Avalon Project : 20th Century Documents
		Treaty between the United of States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
		Treaty of Joint Defense and Economic Cooperation Between the States of the Arab League, June 17, 1950
		Treaty of Locarno Between France and Poland October 16, 1925
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/20th.htm (1522 words)

	Treaties of Locarno - Lexikon - Biografie Willy Brandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Treaties of Locarno - Lexikon - Biografie Willy Brandt
		The conference at Locarno, where the treaties are signed, is called on the initiative of Foreign Minister Stresemann and contributes substantially to the reduction of tension after World War I
		In the Locarno treaties, Germany guarantees the inviolability of France’s eastern border, and Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, and Czechoslovakia obligate themselves to the peaceable resolution of disputes through arbitration.
	www.bwbs.de /bwbs_biografie/Treaties_of_Locarno_G194.html (68 words)

	Locarno Treaties Signed - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		The treaties discussed in this article were the product of an effort to resolve the tensions heightened rather than eased by the Treaty of Versailles which ended World War I (1914-1918).
		The Locarno treaties came to represent the optimism (the 'Spirit of Locarno') of the period.
		Once Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the treaties were ignored, and the stage was set for World War II (1939-1945).
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_761593866/Locarno_Treaties_Signed.html (103 words)

	Locarno, Switzerland, Pictures
		Locarno, town in southern Switzerland, in the canton of Ticino, on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore.
		In October 1925 the Locarno Treaties, seven treaties for mutual security, were signed here by diplomatic representatives of Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
		The so-called “spirit of Locarno,” the confidence engendered by the Locarno treaties, prevailed until 1936, when Germany remilitarized the Rhineland.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Switzerland/Locarno_town.html (143 words)

	The Stresemann Era in Weimar Republic: German History
		The Locarno treaties, signed in 1925 by Germany and the Allies, were the centerpiece of Stresemann's attempt at rapprochement with the West.
		A prerequisite to Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926, the treaties formalized German acceptance of the demilitarization of the Rhineland and guaranteed the western frontier as defined by the Treaty of Versailles.
		The Locarno treaties, the Treaty of Berlin, and Germany's membership in the League of Nations were successes that earned Stresemann world renown.
	www.germanculture.com.ua /library/history/bl_stresemann_era.htm (645 words)

	EVENTS 1936
		German communiqué repeated that the Franco‑Soviet pact was incompatible with the Locarno treaties and the Covenant of the League of Nations.
		The Locarno Powers reaffirmed their mutual obligations, offered Germany a Rhine buffer zone, air and nonaggression pacts, mutual assistance agreements, revision of the Rhineland, and an international conference on security, arms, economic relations, and her return to the League.
		Some of them, who are also victims of a breach of treaties, fear an aggression in the near future; they are consulting together to guard against the peril; should the selfish interests of a few Powers deprive them of the security which the League of Nations was to give them.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/events/1936.html (8355 words)

	Chronology 1925
		The Soviets recognized the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 and revised the Fisheries Convention of 1907.
		The British ceded a strip of territory on the Juba River in Somaliland to Italy in fulfillment of the Treaty of London of 1915.
		These treaties became the basis for inter-war peace and security and signaled a shift in European diplomacy towards international law and arbitration of disputes.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1925.htm (2295 words)

	Russian Life Online
		Locarno Treaties on October 16, 1925, in Locarno, Switzerland, and December 1, 1925 in London, England.
		The Locarno Treaties were a collection of pacts intended to encourage peace in Western Europe.
		The Locarno Treaties worked in conjunction with the policies of the League of Nations (Treaty of Versailles) which Germany joined in 1926 and was granted a permanent seat on the League's Council.
	www.russianlife.net /article.cfm?Number=599 (829 words)

	Gustav Stresemann: Advocate of International Understanding or Precursor of the Nazi Assault
		The foreign policy of Stresemann, between 1923 and 1929, had focused on the revision of the Treaty of Versailles, and the army, under von Seeckt, had already begun to evade the military restrictions imposed on Germany in 1919.
		Moscow took the hint and within a year of Locarno, in April 1926, a treaty of neutrality between the Soviet Union and Germany was signed in Berlin.
		When the Treaty was initialed in October and again when it was signed in London in December 1925, Stresemann suggested to Briand that the two of them hold a private conversation in the near future.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~epf/2000/lewis.html (4230 words)

	International Relations Between The Wars
		Poland, too, was the first country which was obliged to sign, simultaneously with the Versailles Treaty of June 28, 1919, a special treaty with the great powers whose main provisions dealt with the rights of her minorities, racial, linguistic, or religious, which were placed under the guaranty of the League.
		The resentment caused by that treaty was directed not against the provisions themselves, since Poland was ready to include even more extensive rights for all minorities in her national constitution, but against the international interference with that delicate matter.
		The arbitration treaties which Germany signed with the two eastern republics were no recognition of their western boundaries, which were not guaranteed by Britain and Italy as were the frontiers of France and Belgium.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /wooton/34/halecki/22.htm (5828 words)

	Trials of German Major War Criminals: Volume 18
		Here it was overlooked by the prosecution that this treaty does not refer to drawing a neutral into a war between other powers, but deals only with the rights and duties of neutrals and belligerents as long as a state of neutrality exists.
		This system of treaties, which was supplemented in the course of the next month, had a favourable influence on the opinion concerning Hitler's foreign policy held by large circles of the German people who were alarmed at the ideological contrasts.
		Since the treaty of benevolent neutrality (Ruckversicherungsvertrag) signed by Bismarck with Russia there was a general conviction in Germany that the maintenance of friendly relations with Russia must always be the goal of our foreign policy.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-18/tgmwc-18-173-02.shtml (2789 words)

	Locarno Pact - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Locarno Pact 1925, concluded at a conference held at Locarno, Switzerland, by representatives of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
		The request of Gustav Stresemann for a mutual guarantee of the Rhineland met with the approval of Aristide Briand ; under the leadership of Briand, Stresemann, and Austen Chamberlain, a series of treaties of mutual guarantee and arbitration were signed.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Locarno Pact" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-locarnop.html (338 words)

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