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| 1925, Feb. 9 |
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| The German government proposed a Rhineland mutual guaranty pact. The idea was taken up by the British, who were seeking some European arrangement to replace the Geneva protocol. Aristide Briand, who became French foreign minister in April 1925, accepted the suggestion on condition that Germany join the League. | 1 |
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| July 26 |
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| France and Spain reached an agreement for common action in Morocco. | 2 |
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| Aug. 25 |
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| The French evacuated Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort. | 3 |
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| Oct. 5–16 |
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| LOCARNO CONFERENCE AND TREATIES (signed Dec. 1). The treaties included (1) a treaty of mutual guaranty of the Franco-German and Belgo-German frontiers (signed by Germany, France, Belgium, and by Great Britain and Italy as guarantors); (2) arbitration treaties between Germany and Poland, and Germany and Czechoslovakia; (3) arbitration treaties between Germany and Belgium, and Germany and France; (4) a Franco-Polish and a Franco-Czechoslovakian treaty for mutual assistance in case of attack by Germany. The effect of the treaties was far-reaching. For some years the “spirit of Locarno” gave the European powers a sense of security, though Britain had guaranteed only the western frontiers of Germany and Germany had not specifically bound itself to refrain from aggression to the east and south. Realizing this, France secured itself by alliances with Poland and the states of the Little Entente, and proceeded with a program of fortifying the German frontier (Maginot line) and reorganizing the army. | 4 |
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