Locarno Pact

British  

/ ləʊˈkɑːnəʊ /

noun

1. Also called: Treaties of Locarno.  a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925, between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The principal treaty, between Germany, France, and Belgium, concerned the maintenance of their existing frontiers, settlement of disputes by arbitration without resort to force, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland. This treaty was guaranteed by the United Kingdom and Italy but was violated when Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936

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Example Sentences

The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations.

From Time Magazine Archive

An exception was that since Soviet Russia is not a Locarno Pact signatory, Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was not directly in on the Locarno palavers.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

His Majesty's Government has not lost hope in devoting its efforts to maintain peace by a pact to take the place of the old Locarno Pact with the old Locarno powers.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown