Word: buffers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prepare for it by an indefinitely prolonged military occupation. It was maintained that this was the real frontier of all the Allies, the front line that must be held at all cost against Germany. As to the intervening territory, a favorite French solution was that of an independent buffer state under French protection. At one time there were signs of a movement toward separation, for the Catholic Rhineland was inclined to resist the program of the majority Socialists, and there were French Catholics who would have welcomed its affiliation to France. Separatist tendencies were not, however, encouraged by England...