locarnize

English

Alternative forms

• locarnise (non-Oxford British spelling)
• Locarnize
• Locarnise

Etymology

Attested since at least the 1925, from Locarno +‎ -ize. Named after the site of a 1925 treaty in the Swiss town.

Verb

locarnize (third-person singular simple present locarnizes, present participle locarnizing, simple past and past participle locarnized)

1. (rare) To corrupt a peace agreement or treaty to favor one side.
   • 1927 June 26, “Poincare finds ally in Harden in speech row”, in The Billings Gazette, page 2:

     And when these promises have been unmistakably fulfilled, even Poincare will not hesitate to reduce the troops of occupation and to consent to complete evacuation at an early date, as well as to Locarnizing all the French policies.

   • 2002, Nicole Jordan, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940, page 16:

     While the French emissary fastidiously avoided evoking the 1925 negotiations, given the Marshal's vehemently negative sentiments on the subject, Pilsudski promptly saw through the French move to 'locarnize' the treaty.

   • 2005, Zara S. Steiner, The Lights That Failed: European International History 1919–1933, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

     “While future talks were not ruled out Piłsudski would not have the military pact ‘locarnized’ (his word), nor would he accept any French move to reduce their obligations to Poland in case of a Polish–Soviet conflict.”

   • 2014, Piotr Stefan Wandycz, The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926–1936: French–Czechoslovak–Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

     “For the record, Piłsudski states most categorically that this was a French initiative, and manifested a repugnance to have the military convention ‘locarnized’ (Franchet d’Esperey recorded this expression).”

See also

• pacify