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Locarno|ləˈkɑːnəʊ|
The name of a town in Switzerland used to designate the conference held there and the treaties signed as a result in 1925 between Germany and several other European countries for the preservation of peace and the continuation of existing territorial boundaries. So transf., a similar conference, treaty, or agreement. Hence Loˈcarnist n., a supporter or advocate of the policy adopted at the Locarno Conference; also as adj.; Loˈcarnize v. intr., to settle disputes by pacific means.
1926Glasgow Herald 19 Feb. 8 Sir Austen had called Locarno only a beginning... Some business men, having settled a quarrel among themselves, said that they had ‘Locarnized’. Ibid. 5 Mar. 9 We shall go to Geneva to work there as ‘Locarnists’ in the Locarno spirit. 1927Daily Tel. 21 June 13/3 After Locarno there was..a genuine desire to get on better terms with the Reich. Ibid., The demand for the evacuation of the Rhineland..has met with opposition, even in strongly Locarnist quarters. Ibid. 6 Sept. 9/5 All the talk about Eastern or Danubian Locarnos is very much in the air, when even the Western Locarno is seen to be in difficulties already. 1937Ann. Reg. 1936 [74] The answers of Germany and Italy to the invitation sent on July 24 to a new ‘Locarno’ Conference were still being awaited. Ibid. [189] The Hitler Government could count on the help of Italy in its negotiations for a new Locarno Pact. 1937Koestler Spanish Testament ii. 60 The Europe of the Locarno period..would have reacted..with a storm of indignation. 1971A. Bullock 20th Century 72/1 Stresemann had refused to conclude an Eastern Locarno which would mean accepting Germany's postwar frontiers with Poland and Czechoslovakia, and in April 1926 he balanced his acceptance of Locarno by a new treaty of friendship with Soviet Russia. |