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The Locarno treaty and the kellogg-briand pact
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The Locarno treaty and the kellogg-briand pact
The Agreements:
The Locarno treaties,
Background:
- Germany finally accepted the borders with France
- Britain and Italy guaranteed to protect France if they were broken.
- Germany accepted that the Rhineland would stay demilitarised.
- France and Germany agreed to consult the League with future disputes.
In October 1925 representatives of France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia met in Locarno in Switzerland. After many days of hard negotiation they emerged with important agreements.
How was it seen?
The agreement was greeted with great enthusiasm, particularly in France. When news on the agreement was announced church bells were rung, fireworks were set off and the celebrations carried on into the night. The agreements solved the problems that occured after the war.
Germany had shown goodwill
towards France, France felt secure.
The agreements paved the way for Germany for join the League. Germany was granted entry in 1926. Now the soviet Union was the only major European power not in the League.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact,1928
There was nothing in the agreement about what would happen if a state broke the terms of the pact. Nor did the agreement help the League with disarmament.The states all agreed that they had to keep their armies for 'self-defence'.However, at the time, the pact was greeted as a turning point in history. If you had asked any observer in 1928 whether the world was a safer place than it had been in the early 1920s, the answer would be yes.
Three years after the Locarno, the kellogg-briand pact marked a high point of international relations in the 1920s
Terms:
- The parties...condemn war as a mean of solving international disputes and reject it as an instrument of policy.
- The settlement or solution of all disputes...shall only be sought by peaceful means.