2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Years of Illusion
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The Illusion of Peace
Before the euphoria engendered by the Locarno meetings had time to fade, another episode heightened the illusion that peace had arrived and that henceforth conciliation would reign. Scarcely a week after Locarno concluded, skirmishes on the Greco-Bulgarian frontier erupted into a Greek military invasion of Bulgaria, who appealed to the League of Nations. Ensuing events gave the League a much-needed but illusory success.