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Show ITALY REVISES UNO PACT; MUSSOLINI NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR WORK FORMERLY PERFORMED PER-FORMED BY FRANCE Germany Defeated In Plan To Regain Lost Area; All Boundaries Hold; Purpose Is Considered To Be Very Plain Paris. At the precise moment when Europe is as.sc-mbling at Geneva to complete the final phase of Locarno and bring Germany back into European Euro-pean fields, an equal and dominant fact is that Mussolini in his recent speeches and interviews had already revised the Locarno pact inselt, transformed trans-formed the whole situation and given his country a role more important and prominent than it has ever occupied in modern times. Locarno was a British conception which found easy German official agreement and rather less immediate French approval. It gained immediate strength with all elements in Britain, but was and remains unpopular in Many French and Germany quarters. In essence, it represented a British conviction that peace in Europe was not attainable without Franco-German adjustment, that no such adjustment was- possible while France feared Germany, nor if any exclusive Franco-British Franco-British entente were made. Accordingly, Britain guaranteed existing ex-isting frontiers in the west, both German Ger-man and French; brought both to accept ac-cept these frontiers as permanent, and persuaded both to agree to German entrance into the league. For France, the bragain meant a British guarantee guaran-tee of French possession of Alsace-Lorraine, Alsace-Lorraine, for Germany, the present end of danger of new occupations of the Rhineland because of treaty failures, fail-ures, and ultimate freedom to revise eastern frontiers that is, to reclaim DanZing, the Polish corridor and Upper Up-per Silesia, to realize union with Austria. Aus-tria. Eastern eventualities have disquieted disquiet-ed France, alarmed Poland and Cze-cho-Slovakia, and led to the inclusion in the Locarno pacts of an agreement that Germany should not seek by force to remake the eastern boundaries. But this only occentuated the Germany purposes to seek through the machinery machin-ery of the league of nations to obtain a revision of the treaty of Versailles. This was the main argument offered . by the German cabinet for German entrance. |