Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neville fought through Guantanamo in 1898; through the Boxer uprising of 1900; through the Philippine insurrection of 1901; through Verdun and Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...
...peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright red dress she wore...
...Allies proceeded to make it clear that the Cologne bridgehead was not evacuated last January (TIME, Jan. 5, INTERNATIONAL) because Germany had not lived up to the Treaty which, they insisted, was in itself a "serious menace to peace." "In fine," says paragraph No. 8 of the note, "it now rests with the German Government themselves to create conditions so that the evacuation can speedily be effected. It is they themselves who will profit by the readiness with which they give effect to the rectifications demanded, as well as the care with which they proceed strictly to conform their attitude...
...Cologne bridgehead: "The fact that there is still an evacuation question is a sign that there has been no progress. . . . For more than three and a half months, we have waited vainly for a substantial justification of non-evacuation. . . . We must definitely expect that the allied governments will no longer delay to end this state of affairs...
Another factor which doubtless influenced the Allies was that, according to the London Agreement (which settled the means and ways of putting the Experts' Plan into operation), the Ruhr area is not to be evacuated until Aug. 30, 1925. Withdrawal of British troops, which hold the Cologne bridgehead, would isolate France, who would then be obliged to reoccupy the,area...