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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Locarno Pact

She deplored the scrapping of the Locarno Pact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Churchill Sir: Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 .

From Time Magazine Archive

Although tarnished by the years, the Locarno Pact is still a binding British-French-German-Italian-Belgian mutual guarantee to preserve, protect and defend both France and Germanv from aggression by the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month the League of Nations Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Locarno Pact, had then adjourned without taking any punitive action.

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

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