LOCARNO TREATIES:

LOCARNO TREATIES: An excellent, rare and historic multiple signed vintage 12.75 x 10.25 photograph by five of the leading delegates (three of them Nobel Peace Prize winners) who negotiated the Locarno Treaties in 1925, comprising Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) Italian Fascist Dictator of World War II; Hans Luther (1879-1962) German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany 1925-26; Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) British statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1925; Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) German statesman who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1923, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs 1923-29, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1926; and Aristde Briand (1862-1932) French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France 1909-11, 1913, 1915-17, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1929, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1926. The image depicts the crowded negotiating tables at Locarno, where the meetings took place from 5th - 16th October 1955. Signed by each of the five delegates in dark fountain pen inks with their names alone to the lower photographer´s mount, and with an ink title to the upper mount in an unidentified hand, Conferenza di Locarno - 16 Ottobre 1925. Some light foxing and minor age wear, about VG The Locarno Conference of October 1925, named for the small city in southern Switzerland where it was held, is remembered for the agreement known as the Locarno Pact. Signed by France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy, the treaty guaranteed Germany's western frontier, which the bordering states of France, Germany, and Belgium pledged to treat as inviolable. Britain and Italy promised to help in repelling any armed aggression across the frontier. The Rhineland, a part of Germany occupied by the victorious Allied Powers after World War I, was permanently demilitarized and occupying forces withdrawn. The agreement was to come into force only when Germany was admitted to the League of Nations with a seat on the Council, which occurred in 1926. Six other treaties were concluded at Locarno, including arbitration agreements between Germany and Poland and Germany and Czechoslovakia and agreements by which France and Poland and France and Czechoslovakia promised military assistance to each other in case of attack by a third power.