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...blissful German wine country no spot is more romantically gemutlich than Coblenz, where the smooth Moselle slips into the turgid Rhine and the wines of both rivers are at their best, plentiful and cheap. To this perfect setting for a mid-summer picnic, the Ministry of Propaganda brought last week half a million happy Teutons among whom strutted as guests of honor 150,000 Saarlander, nearly a quarter of the population of the Saar...
...Coblenz is some 60 miles from the smoke-blackened, ore-rich Saar Valley ruled by President Geoffrey Knox of the League of Nations Governing Commission (TIME, Aug. 27). Next January Saar-lander will vote in a three-way plebiscite: to 1) rejoin Germany, 2) remain under League rule or 3) join France. As the 150,000 Saar Bummlers rode off to Coblenz last week 60,000 other Saarlander mass-met at Sulzbach in the Saar. "Don't vote to rejoin Germany " they were told by Socialist, Catholic and Communist orators. "Hitler means war, misery and terror...
Adolf Hitler at Coblenz appeared as the Peace Leader. Bliss was his mood. Sailing up the Rhine with Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Host Hitler landed amid transports of devotion from his 500,000 guests. Since Coblenz was too small to hold them, they massed on green fields beneath the crags of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress surveying the Rhine, and the Moselle. Saar bosoms swelled with pride as high German Government officials took seats below a platform reserved for prominent Saarlander and My Leader. So terrific was the crush that Herr Hitler made his way on foot...
...Germany and put them on sale forthwith. To give the League Council pause when it meets next month, Dr. Goebbels announced fantastic plans to cover "25 square miles" with a stupendous mass meeting of Germans and Saar citizens whom he planned to bring in innumerable special trains to Coblenz...
...Argonne, from which only 15 members of his company of 250 emerged alive, he was wounded in the right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify...