ABSTRACT
At the Locarno Conference of 1925, it was agreed that preparations should be made for a World Disarmament Conference, which would be held at a date in the rather remote future. Adolf Hitler took office in Germany in January 1933, but this did not produce any immediate collapse of international cooperation. The Disarmament Conference continued to meet, while, in the summer of 1933, two other important international conferences were held. The World Economic Conference took place in London in the summer of 1933. Everyone was suffering from the effects of international trade barriers, and most were too frightened to knock them down unilaterally. The Franco-Czech secret treaty suggests that there was more in the Franco-Czech Treaty of January 1924 than was officially revealed. In the Soviet cartoon, Heavy going at Geneva, the conference clutches a great load of armaments, which are weighing it down in the water.
