Locarno_Treaty

Locarno Treaty The nature of the Locarno Treaty was the assumption of an obligation by Great Britain and Italy to both Germany and France. It was apparently greeted with much jubilation because unlike the other treaties, it was an ‘open treaty’ which meant that it was not directed against any particular state but rather an unknown aggressor within a defined area. The Treaties of Guarantee signed by the Americans and the British were aborted – President Wilson and Lloyd George induced Clemenceau to drop the demand for permanent occupation of the Rhineland. From the first months of peace, the French were wary of a possibility of new attacks and they were pretty sure where these attacks would come from. They were concerned mainly with the security against invasion. The thesis set out by Clemenceau was that a superior military force would have to be available at the very onset of hostilities, and not at a gradual pace as this would be to no avail. Assistance given gradually would leave France to bear the brunt of the attack alone. Jordan goes on to claim that the British did not want to get involved in any guarantees that locarno, war, security, french, british, state, league, france, covenant, against, treaties, states, set, rather, provided, out, origin, military, member, invasion, guarantee, first, concerned, clemenceau, because, attacks, article, jordan, without, within, wilson, wary