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of the Versailles Treaty.  The pertinent Article of the
Treaty of Locarno is quoted below:
 
 
                        "ARTICLE 1.                         
 
 
"The high contracting parties collectively
and severally guarantee, in the manner provided in
the following articles, the maintenance of the
territorial 
status quo
 resulting from the frontiers
between Germany and Belguim and between Germany and
France and the inviolability of the said frontiers
as fixed by or in pursuance of the Treaty of Peace
signed at Versailles on the 28th June, 1919, and
also the observance of the stipulations of articles 42
and 43 of the said treaty concerning the demilitarised
zone."
 
 
The Treaty of Locarno likewise indicates how infractions
of its terms shall be dealt with.  The procedure is out-
lined in Articles 4 and 5, which are quoted below:
 
 
                        "ARTICLE 4.                         
 
 
"1.  If one of the high contracting parties alleges
that a violation of article 2 of the present treaty
or a breach of articles 42 or 43 of the Treaty of
Versailles has been or is being committed, it shall
bring the question at once before the Council of the
League of Nations.
 
 
"2.  As soon as the Council of the League of
Nations is satisfied that such violation or breach
has been committed, it will notify its finding without
delay to the Powers signatory of the present treaty,
who severally agree that in such case they will each
of them come immediately to the assistance of the
Power against whom the act complained of is directed.
 
 
"3.  In case of a flagrant violation of article 2
of the present treaty or of a flagrant breach of
articles 42 or 43 of the Treaty of Versailles by one
of the high contracting parties, each of the other
contracting parties hereby undertakes immediately to