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
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