October 1925
British Guarantee Excludes Eastern Frontiers
Chamberlain avoids extending Britain's automatic guarantee to Germany's eastern borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Locarno in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Chamberlain avoids extending Britain's automatic guarantee to Germany's eastern borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Chamberlain mediates between French demands for security and German demands for restored diplomatic equality.
Chamberlain accepts that Britain should guarantee the Franco-German and Belgian-German frontier settlement.
Chamberlain mediates between French security demands and German revisionist aims during the Locarno negotiations.
Chamberlain's mediation at Locarno becomes a major reason for his award of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
Article Eight establishes a League Council procedure governing any eventual termination of the pact.
Britain agrees that an unmistakable act of aggression in the demilitarized zone can trigger assistance before a final League ruling.
Chamberlain commits Britain to guarantee the western frontier settlement negotiated between Germany, France and Belgium.
Chamberlain accepts the League Council's role in determining whether a treaty breach has occurred.
Chamberlain supports the Locarno settlement as a means of strengthening European security and League diplomacy.
Chamberlain supports judicial, conciliation and League procedures for disputes not resolved by ordinary diplomacy.
Chamberlain initials the final protocol linking the seven Locarno agreements into a single diplomatic settlement.
Chamberlain supports the arbitration conventions and treaties that accompany the main Rhineland Pact.
Other disputes can be submitted to conciliation, with unresolved questions then going to the League Council.
Article Nine states that British dominions and India are not bound unless their governments accept the treaty.
The pact preserves action taken under Article 16 of the League Covenant as an exception to the non-aggression undertaking.
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