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...Only the First Rhineland Occupied Zone (Cologne) has been evacuated (TIME, Feb). 15, 1926). According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Second Zone (Coblenz) and the Third (Mayence) are to be evacuated on Jan. 1, 1930 and 1935 respectively...
General Lassiter, as everyone knows, is considered one of the mildest-mannered and most ably diplomatic of U. S. officers. He was despatched from Panama to Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1) reputedly because his reputation for tact in dealing with Germans when his troops took over the Coblenz bridge head (1919) suggested that he might be able to cool Latin hotheads...
...Coblenz alone 97 wine makers were declared to have mortgaged their crops. There a few desperate vintners met to consider the advisability of an appeal to President Coolidge. They were vexed when informed that the President could not suspend the U. S. prohibition laws to rescue the hard pressed German producer. They were outraged when William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson,' famed itinerant U. S. dry crusader, arrived at Berlin, last week and predicted: "Within 25 years Germany will have become so dry they will be putting the last steins in museums...
...First Zone (Cologne) was technically evacuated "as of Dec. 1, 1925" (TIME, Nov. 23), the actual evacuation having gradually proceeded up to last week. In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, the Second Zone (Coblenz) and the Third (Mayence) are to be evacuated on Jan. 1, 1930 and 1935, respectively...
According to the Treaty of Versailles, Cologne was to be evacuated Jan. 10, 1925, Coblenz, Jan. 10, 1930, Mainz, Jan. 10, 1935, "if the conditions of the present treaty are faithfully carried out by Germany...