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Locarno Group 3
Treaties
Britain agreed with this idea and France also agreed just because if Germany crossed the frontier in the future, Britain would join forces with France.
- Briand (French politician): wanted to expand the agreement to include Germany’s eastern border also, but it was rejected.
- The British knew that the Polish corridor, Danzig and Upper Silesia where areas with a lot of conflicts (that’s why they rejected Briand’s suggestion).
The Locarno negotiation ended up in the making of 7 treaties signed on December 1st in London that confirmed the inviolability of the Franco-German and Belgian-German frontiers and the demilitarization of Rhineland, after the meeting led by Stresemann (Germany), Briand (France) and Chamberlain (Britain).
The continued demilitarization of the Rhineland was agreed
France convinced Britain and Germany to expand it to include the Belgian borders.
Stresemann (a German politician) did a scheme that would help recognize Germany’s western border with France and Belgium and allow Germany to re acceted in the League.
Guarantees
- In the Treaties, an Anglo-Italian guarantee reassured that it would assist the victims of aggression.
- If there was any problem between countries, the country that was attacked was the one who would appeal to the Council of the League of Nations.
- If there was a violation of the treaty Britain and Italy would act immediately but then they had to speak to the Council.
Reaction to Locarno
The reaction to the treaty was positive, there was a lot of enthuthiasm.
- France had now the security that they had wanted for so long but out of all the great powers she had gained the least from the treaty.
- She could no longer threaten to occupy the Ruhr if Germany didn’t comply with the treaty as now her frontier’s were secured.
- The British had managed to give France the illusion of security, as it was guaranteed that almost every violation to the Treaty was directed to the league for it to take action. which meant that Britain could decide what action would be taken (through its representative in the Council).
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Historians believe that the separation of France from its eastern and central European countries was one of Stresemann's main aims so as to revise the Treaty of Versailles regarding Germany's eastern borders
The atmosphere of détente (easing of tension between countries) resulted in:
- The evacuation of the Cologne Zone in January 1926.
- Germany joining the League as a permanent member of the Council in September 1926.
-January 1927: Stresemann managed to have the Allied Dissarmament Commisson retired.
- August 1928: Britain, France and Belgium withdrew 10,000 troops from Rhineland.
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