1926

The year in brief

On 31 January 1926 the last British soldiers, and with them Belgian and French troops, left Cologne, and the first zone of the occupied Rhineland returned to Germany. On 8 September the Assembly of the League of Nations admitted Germany and gave it a permanent seat on the Council, the crowning of Stresemann’s policy. Earlier, in April, Berlin concluded a treaty of friendship and neutrality with the USSR and assured Moscow that it was not breaking with the policy of Rapallo. In Greece General Theodoros Pangalos proclaimed himself dictator, and in Japan Emperor Yoshihito died on 25 December and the regent Hirohito took the throne.