The Polish-Romanian and the Latvian-Estonian political and military alliances, set up in 1921, were the foundations of international order in the area, and plans to merge them into a grand Border States league continued to be nurtured although with less enthusiasm than it had been done a few years earlier. The countries situated on this belt were still in search of diplomatic and political tools to back up stability and regional balance. While the dialogue between Western and Central Europe was unlocked at least temporarily following the Locarno Pact (1925), the Border States persisted to be widely seen as a locus of clash between the old bourgeoisie world and the rising communist one. It stood witness of a divided Europe, functioning at differing speeds and acting based on most urgent security needs and concerns. It referred to the belt of countries from Finland to the north and down to Romania to the south, neighbouring the most ideologically charged border of Europe. ![]() ![]() By the mid of the 1920s the concept of Border States had already been established in the political and diplomatic vocabulary of European chancelleries.
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