The position of the Iraqi press on the conference of the International Security Charter in 1925

Abstract

After the end of the First World War in 1918, the victorious countries Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the United States of America sought to rearrange the international situations according to their own interests, as soon those countries called for an international conference that started its work in Paris at the beginning of 1919, and the countries that Germany, which only severed diplomatic ties with it, fought without the defeated and loyal states attending the war. The conference resulted in a series of treaties in which the countries that lost the war were forced to sign, led by the Versailles Treaty on the twenty-eighth of June 1919, which was imposed on Germany as the main cause of the destruction that hit the European continent and the world, and in view of the provisions of the Versailles Treaty that was greater than Germany’s economic potential for compensation, disarmament, the loss of its colonies and the appropriation of its lands, especially for its rich in economic resources, soon emerged international problems again when Germany was unable to fulfill its international obligations to pay compensation with France’s endeavor to weaken its neighbor Germany to ensure its security, contrary to For Britain's policy to seek a state of international balance between the banks of the Rhine and Germany to ensure that the latter does not excel at the European level, this prompted the European parties, with the support of the United States of America, to hold a series of international conferences between (1920-1924), but without reaching satisfactory results To all parties to the conflict, until the conference (the International Security Charter) was held in Locarno, Switzerland 1925, the subject of the study, which is considered the first step towards international stability, because it is a guarantee of permanent security in the view of France and a return to the international community in the view of Germany and a collective endorsement of peace in the view of Britain, so there has become a real desire among researchers to know what took place between the negotiations among the participating delegations, In light of what was mentioned by some Iraqi newspapers (Alaistiqlal - the Arab world - The Baghdadian times - Almufid -Alfalah) that accompanies the time of the conference, which dealt with the title of this study with interest and with some detail, especially since many studies neglected many aspects of it or transferred a certain aspect From the conference and neglected other aspects.