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Show SECURITY PACT MEETSAPPRQVAL SIGNATURES ARE AFFIXED AT, CONVENTION HELD AT LOCARNO LO-CARNO BY EUROPEANS Germans Are Accepted by Other Nations Na-tions As Being On Equal Footing Foot-ing For First Time Since The World War Locarno, Switzerland. Peace between be-tween Germany, France and Belgium at last is assured. The long sought for security pact outlawing war finally fin-ally has been approved, and the signatures sig-natures of all contracting parties have been attached. 1 Not only has the Rhine pact been agreed to, but the troublous question dealing with security for France's allies al-lies in the East Poland and Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia likewise has been resolved. Under the Western security pact the signatories France, Germany and Belgium engage themselves not to attack or invade the other's territory and to abstain from war. Standing in the background as guarantors of the fulfillment of the terms of the agreement will be Great Britain and Italy, ready to use their might against any of the signers of the tripartite agreement which violates its terms. Should disagreements arise, arbitration arbi-tration between the dissatisfied states is obligatory. The permanent court of international justice boards of conciliation con-ciliation and the council of the league of nations all are possibilities for settling disputes. There will be collateral arbitration treaties between Germany and France and Germany and Belgium which will interlock with the Rhine pact itself and also arbitration treaties between Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. Czechoslo-vakia. Separate conventions will be drawn up between France and her Eastern allies guaranteeing France to aid them if they should meet with unprovoked or flagrant attack. After initiating the Locarno agree-mens agree-mens the various treaties probably will be signed two weeks hence in London. Under the Rhine pact Germany Ger-many is to join the league of nations, and the officials of the league are anxious that she do so at the earliest moment possible and participate in the preliminary studies for the proposed pro-posed disarmament conference which the league will convoke when it believes be-lieves Europe has reached the point of real security. It is no secret that Germany desires de-sires a lessoning in the armaments of her neighbors, and that she believes with peace secure, this will be attainable. attain-able. Optimism prevails on the part of at least one of the main delegates to the conference here Austen Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, the British foreign secretary that not only has good come from the Locarno conference to Europe, but to the nations of the world. "Relations have been established," said Mr. Chamberlain, "which will have their rupercussion and repetition in the near future in the relations between other nations, and there will emerge for Europe not a peace pact imposed, but a peace consented to by all." Benito Mussolini, the facist premier of Italy is here to affix sis signature to the Locarno agreement as, with Great Britain, one of the guarantors of the Rhineland pact. Fearful of some possible untoward acts against him by Socialists, from whose banner he seceded to become a facist. Swiss police officials and a bodyguard of fascists are guarding him. |