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Show I LOCjfii PACT MUSSOLINI NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR WORK FORMERLY PERFORMED PER-FORMED BY FRANCE Germany Defeated In Plan To Regain Lost Area; All Boundaries Hold; j Purpose Is Considered To Be Very Plain Paris. At the precise moment when Europe is assembling at Geneva to J complete the final phase of Locarno i and bring Germany back into L,uro- pean fields, an equal and dominant fact is that Mussolini in his recent speeches and interviews had already revised the Locarno pact inself, 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 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 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 fail- I ures, and ultimate freedom to revise j eastern frontiers that is, to reclaim i I Danzing, the Polish corridor and Up- I per Silesia, to realize union with Austria. Aus-tria. f I r Eastern eventualities have disquiet- ! I ed France, alarmed Poland and Cze- j 1 cho-Slovakia, and led to the inclusion ! b 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 niachin- j ery of the league of nations to obtain a revision t.f tllr. 1! T. 1 ............ ul .iLLiij ui vei sanies. This was the main argument offered by the German cabinet for German entrance. |