Word: dorten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt was started without the foreknowledge of Dr. Josef Matthes and Dr. Dorton, the two principal Rhineland Separatists. Immediately after the fall of Aix, Dr. Matthes assumed control of the movement. Dr. Dorten was declared to be on the point of starting a movement for an independent Palatinate Republic, but there was no confirmation of this report...
...revolution on the west bank of the Rhine for the establishment of an independent Rhineland republic free from Germany. The staff officer stated that fifty French deputies were ready to be sent into the American sector to assist in starting the revolution. The proposition referred to revolved around Hans Dorten of Wiesbaden. M. Clemenceau conducted an investigation and wrote a letter to General Mangin, of which Baker says: "In this letter there was no serious censure of General Mangin, much less any repudiation of his project. . . . Indeed, no secrecy was made of the concurrence of the Government in Mangin...
...report dated April 16, 1923, addressed by the high commissioner of the French Republic in the Rhine provinces, Paul Tirard to the Secretariat General, Paris, reviewed the relations of the French authorities in occupied Germany with Dr. Dorten. This report contains the following sentences: "the French high commissariat did everything it could do without bringing itself to grief to preserve for Dr. Dorten the possibility of action. . . . Thanks to this support, I often was able to get his adherents together, maintain their enthusiasm, increase his propaganda and establish journals...
...separatist party contains but a very small proportion of the population. But at the instigation of the French government, it has been made to appear a vast popular movement. The party leader, Dorten, is in French pay. The party organizers are also subsidized. The French allow the scattered separatists free use of the railroads in order that they may assemble in what appears to be great popular demonstrations. They are given the protection of the French troops, while the German police are disarmed and even clubbed to death if they try to interfere...
...independent republic. According to French experts, the creation of the republic is only a matter of days. But the matter is not so simple. The Berlin Government is violently opposed to the secession of the Rhineland from the Reich; the population, freed from the influences of Dr. Dorten, the most prominent Rhineland Republic agitator, and reported French gold, is not wholly sympathetic with the independent republican idea. These people point out that as a buffer state between France and Germany the Rhineland would be worse off than...