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The lakeside elegance of Locarno
; ...decorations.The heart of the festival is the Piazza Grande, Locarno's main square, which turns into an open-air cinema seating...which is also lined by the 17th-century Palazzo Marcacci Locarno's city hall and by a 14th-century tower. Scholars believe...by the Milanese Visconti family, who took control of ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1926: Locarno Support
; ...278 to 6 in the Senate yesterday [June 4] for ratification of the Locarno peace and security pact. The vote was taken at the close of an hour's expose of the purpose of the pact, in which the Premier admitted that there were possibly defects, but...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925: Locarno's Model
; ...The undefended frontier between Canada and the United States offered an example to European nations in drawing up the Locarno pact, said Mr. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. ''Where did the example come from with respect to this great agreement...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925: Locarno Odds
; ...with a sporting turn of mind, are betting five to one on a successful outcome of the issues under discussion at the Security Pact conference. It is expected that these odds will be shortened as the negotiators from the different nations get to closer grips...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1925: Pacts Adopted
; International Herald Tribune 10-16-2000 LOCARNO With the official adoption of the draft of a Western Security Pact at the eighth plenary session of the conference...drafting of the German-Polish arbitration pact and the ironing out of minor disagreements...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1954: Eden Urges S. Asia Pact
; ...resolving the Far Eastern crisis. It envisages a Far Eastern Locarno-type pact with Communist China and Russia to guarantee an Indo...settlement, on the one hand, and a Southeast Asia security pact among non-Communist countries, on the other hand...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1930: 5-Power Pact Sought
; International Herald Tribune 04-02-2005 LONDON: With a 3-power naval pact now considered virtually assured by Japan's acceptance of the...sought along the lines of an improvement on the annex of the Locarno pact. This annex comprises a note to Germany of October 16, 1925...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1930: Italy Rejects Pact
; ...learned that Italy refused to be a party to any five-power pact incorporating the security formula on which the British and...country could not and would not be a party to any five-power pact on the terms suggested. He also argued that Italy could not...joint guarantor, with England and France, under the treay ...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1930: Disarmament Needed
; ...which has been given to the peace movement and defended his pact of Paris for outlawing war, in an address tonight [March 27...out that despite anti-war pacts, the League of Nations, the Locarno treaty and the advancement of conciliation and arbitration...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1926:Heated Meeting
; ...hour session this afternoon of the signatories of the Rhine pact, with the exclusion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, resulted in...Chamberlain spoke last week in the House of Commons. In fact, the Locarno Spirit seems to be lost somewhere in Lake Geneva. 2001 Copyright...
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