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How a Flawed Peace Treaty Changed International Law

The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war in 1928 among 63 nations but failed to prevent 1930s aggression and WWII while shaping international legal responses to war.
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What secret flaw doomed the Locarno Pact to fail?

The Locarno Pact, actually a group of seven treaties (hence its other name: the Locarno Treaties), was signed on 1 December 1925 with the aim that peace continued in Europe despite the German government's disapproval of the Treaty of Versailles, which formally concluded the First World War (1914-18). The pact is named after the Swiss town of Locarno, where the delegates from seven European nations met.
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