October 1925
Briand Accepts British and Italian Guarantors
Briand accepts Britain and Italy as guarantors of the western settlement between France, Belgium and Germany.
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Briand accepts Britain and Italy as guarantors of the western settlement between France, Belgium and Germany.
Briand insists that the settlement preserve the Versailles restrictions on military forces in the Rhineland.
Briand represents France as the Locarno Conference opens to negotiate a European security settlement.
Article Two commits France and Germany not to attack, invade or resort to war against each other except under stated exceptions.
France accepts a separate arbitration convention requiring peaceful procedures for disputes with Germany.
Briand approves the five-power guarantee linking Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy.
Briand accepts a central League Council role in determining and responding to breaches of the western guarantee.
France keeps its separate commitment to assist Czechoslovakia while joining the western Locarno framework.
Briand ensures that the western pact does not cancel France's security commitments toward Poland.
Briand joins the final protocol's commitment to cooperate with League efforts toward a general disarmament agreement.
The pact allows action resulting from specified decisions of the League Assembly or Council.
Briand joins the other delegates in approving the final protocol and interdependent Locarno agreements.
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