The agreements that were signed in Locarno in represent an important chapter in the history of international relations because they attempted to heal the wounds of the Great War as well as trying to design an international system of coexistence with renunciation of war. This détente would not last long as we well know.
Versailles did not guarantee peace in Europe . It was soon seen that the League of Nations despite its fervent conviction in favor of peace and international coexistence had no practical means to achieve these objectives. Furthermore the two great emerging powers of the moment the United States and the USSR did not belong to this organization. In the Geneva Protocol was signed which sought to end the policies of aggression. It was signed by fourteen countries but the United Kingdom did not intervene in it. Thus it would be Paris and Berlin who decided to sit down and negotiate to move forward.
The Locarno Pact was a clear bet against war. The resort to violence would CXB Directory only be legitimized in the case of aggression or in compliance with the orders of the League of Nations.
The result was that the main European leaders met in Locarno highlighting Gustav Stressemann Aristide Briand and Joseph Austen Chamberlain in addition to Mussolini reaching seven arbitration andor alliance agreements that affected France Germany Belgium Italy Poland and Czechoslovakia as well as a final declaration on mutual guarantees on how to interpret some points of the Charter of the League of Nations.
The Locarno Pact was a clear bet against war. The resort to violence would only be legitimized in the case of aggression or in compliance with the orders of the League of Nations. State borders must be respected. They all committed to resorting to the Hague Court to resolve conflicts grievances and litigation. Germany would apply for membership in the SDN and obtain it although by demanding to be a permanent member of the Council the organization's statutes had to be reformed.
Well the Belgian foreign minister Émile Vandervelde - a fundamental socialist in his country and in the Second International refused to greet Mussolini because he was persecuting the workers in Italy within a set of unusual episodes. acquaintances of this important meeting of European diplomacy.
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