Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
Having thus spoken, he had no cause to complain when the German press took occasion, last week, to flay him. Thundered the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag...
Today two vital events impend in these onetime "Lost Provinces," which were regained by France from Germany at the close of the War: 1) Throughout Alsace-Lorraine there will shortly be tried numerous pro-German citizens charged with plotting against France; 2) At the very time when passions are being stirred by these trials, Alsace-Lorrainers will be casting ballots in the French general election of this Spring...
Scouting the contention that Germans might be permitted to maintain a "cultural influence" in the German-speaking areas of Alsace-Lorraine, he rapped: "We do not attempt to intervene in Belgium, Switzerland or Canada, on the pretense of protecting the French language or traditions in those countries. And we shall not permit foreign influence to glide into the administration of our own domestic affairs...
History dramatized seems to present a different situation, as in the case of the motion picture "Dawn", a British production. The German Government has successfully protested against the release, which deals with the death of Edith Cavell, as an objectionable theme and a misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...