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Volume XLI] March, 1926 [Number r
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
RECORD OF POLITICAL EVENTS
[From January 3 to December 31, 19251
I. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
STEPS TOWARD LOCARNO.-The Locarno Conference, which
seems already to have taken its place as one of the major events of
modern history, was not a sudden or an isolated flare of pacific states-
manship; on the contrary, it was the outcome and summary of a whole
series of events, some appreciation of which is indispensable if the
Locarno treaties are to be made intelligible. To begin with, the
negotiations for the security of the Rhine frontier, conceived at first
solely with the idea of defending France against future German attack,
date back to the secret Franco-Russian agreement of 1917 whereby the
Left Bank of the Rhine was to be made a buffer state and to be occu-
pied by French troops. For this first and crudest project, Premier
Lloyd George and President Wilson at the Peace Conference had
substituted a temporary Inter-Allied occupation of the Rhineland and
the defense treaty of June 28, 1919, whereby Great Britain and the
United States were pledged to succor France against any unprovoked
aggression by Germany. But the defense treaty, being refused rati-
fication by the United States Senate, fell by the wayside, and at the
Cannes Conference of 1922 Premiers Lloyd George and Briand planned
to substitute for it an Anglo-French pact in which England alone
would undertake to protect France. This in turn failed, because
M. Briand was suddenly overthrown and his successor M. Poincar6
desired a quite different sort of alliance.
The project of a French security pact was merged after 1922 with
general negotiations in the League of Nations for disarmament and
security. The principle that disarmament depends upon national
security was asserted by the Third Assembly of the League, in the
autumn of 1922, and became a foundation for future projects. The
next step was the formulation, by the Temporary Mixed Commission
of the League, of the Draft Treaty of Mutual Assistance, generally
known as the Cecil-R6quin plan. One of its most essential features](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/pclscceqry41&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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