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...recall that in November 1918, Germany besought France to protect her fleeing army from the Alsatian populace so long oppressed...
...Alsatian stock, Debs was born Nov. 5, 1855 into a respectable bourgeois family at crude, democratic Terre Haute, Ind. His father kept a grocery store, read Victor Hugo. Gene left school at 14, spent a year scraping paint in a Vandalia railroad shop, became a locomotive fireman on the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. At 19 he gave up the only hard work he ever did because of his mother's fears for his safety...
Some German soldier probably found the litter of puppies on a deserted Alsatian farm and took them along with him for luck. When luck went bad, he left them behind. The Allied troops getting into the captured sector found the puppies in a dugout, whimpering with hunger. They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...
...Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the question of the Franco-German frontier. The Marshal wanted me to annex the Rhineland, and wrote me so. I did not want to have a new Alsace-Lorraine that would send protesting deputies to the French Chamber, as Alsatian deputies were sent to the Reichstag after 1871. So Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and myself drew the Franco-German frontier...