Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon it appeared that only small fry have been jailed. Still at liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...
Typically the chief pro-German plotters in Alsace-Lorraine are led by Roman Catholic priests like the Abbé Haegy. Reason: the Imperial German Government deliberately founded and fostered Catholic schools throughout Alsace in which youths were carefully trained up in zeal for Rome and Germany and in detestation of France which has disestablished the Roman Catholic Church...
Progress. Not a year passes without the assimilation of Alsace-Lorraine into France becoming more marked. Points of progress: 1) The entire Germanic judicial system has been transformed to correspond with French law; 2) Education is proceeding bilingually, the student being instructed in both French and German; 3) Commercially Alsace-Lorraine has forged far ahead of pre-War records. The port of Strasbourg on the Rhine has doubled its loadings since 1914. Doubled also is the value of tobacco, oil and iron produced each year. Meanwhile the hop harvest has increased in value from 25,000,000 francs...
...further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
...know what fate history reserves for the Washington-London debt settlements during the next sixty years. What is certain is that no further sacrifice can be asked of the Italian nation than the giving up of the whole of her German reparations to paying off her War debts...