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Speakers at the convention included Secretary of Labor Davis (for restriction of immigration), Director Frank T. Hines of the Veterans' Bureau (on care of ex-service men), Samuel Gompers, Admiral R. E. Coontz, and General Josef Haller, Commander of the Polish Army...
...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...
...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's sympathy with the movement for revolt." Doesn't that rather disprove your statement? Some more facts may convince you. Early in 1923 Josef Smeets, the Bavarian separatist leader in the Rhineland, testified in court that he had been receiving money from French sources in connection with that campaign...
...Josef Hofmann was a European sensation and attracted the attention of Rubinstein before the age of seven; had a sensational debut at the Metropolitan when nine...
When Sunday came along, some 15,000 secessionists assembled in Düsseldorf for their mass meeting. At the same time Communists held a counter meeting. Order was maintained during the procession that was formed, and then Dr. Josef Matthes began his speech: " The Separatists are animated by hatred toward none, but only desire peace, security and tranquillity." Shots rang out, men dropped dead, women and children screamed, a panic followed; the security police fired a fusillade, the secessionists replied with guns and cudgels, men, women and children fell dead or wounded. The fight was characterized by "savage brutality, particularly...