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‘In the long run, the Locarno Treaty (December 1925) was destructive both of the Treaty of Versailles and of the Covenant’. Comment.

  • UPSC 2008
  • World Wars

Hailed at the time as the dawn of a "Locarno spirit" of Franco-German reconciliation, the Locarno Treaties of 1925 are judged by many historians to have quietly undermined the very Versailles settlement and League Covenant they were meant to reinforce.

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  • The Provisions of Locarno
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  • How Locarno Undercut the Covenant
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