Locarno Treaties
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The Locarno Treaties, known collectively as the Locarno Pact, were seven post–World War I agreements negotiated amongst Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia in lat
From left to right, Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand during the Locarno negotiations
The German delegation at Locarno. Gustav Stresemann is fifth from the left; Hans Luther is standing slightly behind him, to his left.
The Locarno conference attendees. One will recognize Mussolini, Stresemann, Chamberlain and Briand.
Autochrome of the Belgian delegation. Left to right: Henri Rolin, Joseph de Ruelle, Emile Vandervelde, Pierre van Zuylen and Ferdinand du Chastel
Austen Chamberlain
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parlia
Locarno Treaties
…policy during the interwar years was radically different from France's. It sought to restore Germany as a peaceful, prosperous nation. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain hoped that if Franco-German relations improved, France would gradually abandon its cordon sanitaire. Once France had ended its alliances in Eastern…
Chamberlain in 1931
Chamberlain caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1899.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, 1908–12, by Henry Walter Barnett
Imperial War Cabinet (1917) Austen is in the second row, fourth from the left