Locarno Conference Convenes to Prevent War between Germany and Western Neighbors

In an agreement signed pursuant to a conference held in Locarno, Germany recognized the western border stipulated in the Versailles Treaty and undertook not to send armed forces into the Rhineland region after the occupying powers evacuated it. The agreement belonged to a set of political actions by the German Prime Minister, Gustav Stresemann, who, in the mid-1920s, stabilized Germany’s status in Europe and improved relations with the West and with the Soviet Union.