Word: cken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saarbrücken hard-jawed Hermann Röchling, Nazi industrialist, and reputed slush fund paymaster, snorted "Germany will not interfere with Saar Jews, Socialists and Communists! I suppose they will leave the Saar." After sleeping on this the Saar steel magnate said next day, according to a correspondent of London's Sunday Express, "A certain number of Communists will be sent to camps, unless they are converted into honest people. The 40,000 Saar unemployed will be mustered into the German Labor Front and set to building public works. A few foolish clergymen will be removed-by their...
Meanwhile 20 Italian officers and 40 men reached Saarbräcken, advance guard of 1,300 of Benito Mussolini's finest going to take their place in the League of Nations' first international army...
...January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany or turned over to France. For months Nazi agents from the Fatherland have been so active in the Saar that Frenchmen charge they have set up a "rival Government" at Saarbrücken...
...German Front rose in a body last week and marched out as a direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will now dismiss von Hindenburg as a representative of soulless barbarism and of the Germany that turned its back upon civilization...
...French. Last week Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, charged with the job of getting the Saar back for Germany at any cost, began scouring Germany for oldtime Saar residents eligible to vote in next year's free-for-all. Then he rushed to Zweibriücken on the Saar border to scream at a huge crowd of 200,000: "Your return to the Reich is no longer a question of parliamentary or party support but of the will of 66,000,000 people, finally united and standing beside and behind you. No measures of force or despotism...