Word: aix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not really matter whether as Mr. Jentsch thinks, French plots have brought on the Separatist movement or whether, as Professor Feuillerat claims, it is all due to the innate Rhenish hatred for Prussia. But it is interesting to realize that in Aix and Bonne, in Coblenz and Dortmund there is a struggle in progress the result of which is nearly as important for the future of France and Germany as were the battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even...
...proclamation of the independence of the Rhineland Republic, announced yesterday in despatches from Aix la Chapelle, Prussia, is not due to a popular uprising of the Rhinelanders as a whole but to the active agitation of a small group of separatists subsidized by the French government. So declared Mr. G. F. Jentsch 3G., a German student from the Universities of Berlin and Breslau, who is now an instructor in the German department at Harvard...
...idea of a separate state in the Rhineland is as old as the two countries whom it most concerns. Perhaps it is older, for the headquarters of Charlemagne's empire, from which both France and Germany and sprung, was situated at Aix-la-Chapelle. Ever since Charles the Bold and Ludwig the German in 870 divided the territory of their nephew Lo thair between them, Lotharingia has been the victim of the conflicting ambitions of France and Germany. Although originally Alsace and the lower Rhine were given to Germany and Lorraine was alloted to France, neither country has been content...
Premier Baldwin, accompanied by Mrs. Baldwin, left England for Aix-le-Bains, in France, for a " holiday," but " great expectations " are held from his vacation abroad...
...American medical profession, under the patronage of the French ministries of public works and public instruction. Besides Paris, Strasbourg, and the battlefields, the joyriding doctors will visit Besancon, Dôle, Arbois, towns connected with Pasteur's early life, and the famous thermal baths at Evian, Aix, Vichy...