ow the photograpHers redoubled their activities a5 Sir Cecil Hurst, Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, having reported that the delegates Powers had been duly verified and 4 list of small errors in the Treaty text corrected by agreement, Rose with the document embodying the! Security Pact in his hand and bore it to the several delegates for sig nature. Dr. Luther igned frst, using one of the ordinary pens! scattered about the table. "Dr, trevemann, distinctly nervous, any Feauiring two dips into the silver 5 id then M.! Vandervelde, M. Briand, Mr. Bald:
Austen Chamberlain, and Signor Scial Aust without "removing his wode, signed with a large sold made in the shape of & quill present from the British Des) legation at Locarno—and when, hed done so he lifted it with flourish. 'The Pact was now a Pact in ery deed. Printed on special Paner of extreme whiteness and bound with blue ribbon, the historic loonment lay before him with the signatures of the seven' peace mak rs, affixed beside seven red. seals and a ribbon of blue uniting them, Immediately afterwards the other conventions were borne round. for signature. The declaration of the Allies to the Germans regarding the interpretation of "Article XVI of the League of Nations Covenant was handed over by Sir Austen Chamberlain and given into the ceping of Herr von Schubert of the German delegation, At this stage came a short and unexpected address from M. Briand, delivered with great animation, and Yory impressive in its eloquence and sincerity. The Pact, he declared, Was the start of a work that wal magnificent, and there should be little doubt that it had definitely closed the gates of war. "I remain 4 good Frenchman," concluded M.
Briand, ~but Tan ale" a good friend of the world." He also emphasized the terrible sacrifice of young lives in the war, and Herr Stresemann, tone of the German delegates, tool ur the same point in emotional tones.
Dr. Stresemann was searcely audible as he began to spe dressing himself first to "You, Sit Austen Chamberlain," and quiekinning a responsive smile, he remarked that unwritten laws sometimes worked far better than fo: mule, and that Locarno triumphed by its very' informal: t There was also a graceful tribute to Lady Chamberlain, If the Pact were nothing but a bundle of par-graphs, said Dr. Stresemann, would rot survive, Its formulas would only become a reality if behind them was the determination which had inspired the remarks of M. Briand. We were apt to estimate the ravages of the war is material terms, but our greatest toy of & steneration possessing knew not what undeveloped pos: sibilities and strength. "A corns munity of fate binds us to one att other. If we go under we go under together, May Inter generations have reason to think gratefully of this day as the beginning of a new epoch."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.