Locarno

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A town of southern Switzerland at the northern end of Lake Maggiore. The Locarno Pact between Germany and various European powers was signed here in 1925, in an effort to promote peace and maintain existing territorial borders. Today the city is a popular resort.

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We saw Placebo in Locarno last night - they were awesome!

Placebo, Locarno 2009
We saw Placebo in Locarno last night - they were awesome!

kitschenette - life in the swiss lane 2009
The spectral Locarno is the place where the belief that nothing can take place without a reason (Grund) is qualified by the curious detail that everything takes place, again and again, without ever thereby acquiring

Reading, Begging, Paul de Man 2005
And yet I feel that what was achieved in Locarno was not to no avail.

Willy Brandt - Nobel Lecture 1971
What they achieved together with the help of England in Locarno was expressed by Stresemann in the following words in this very place; For one thing, it is the state of lasting peace on the

Willy Brandt - Nobel Lecture 1971
The policy of Locarno is incompatible with policies of distrust, violence, and oppression.

Gustav Stresemann - Nobel Lecture 1926
Following extensive negotiations, a meeting took place in Locarno from October 5 to October 16 of 1925.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1926 - Presentation Speech 1926
Locarno is the policy of understanding and free will.

Gustav Stresemann - Nobel Lecture 1926
Following extensive negotiations, a meeting took place in Locarno from October 5 to October 16 of 1925.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1925 - Presentation Speech 1925
On Chamberlain's birthday, October 16, the foreign ministers initialed the documents known as the Locarno Agreements.

Sir Austen Chamberlain - Biography 1925