Word: kreistag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days after the "Pirmasens affair" the green-white-red flag of the Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...
...proclamation issued by the President of the Kreistag Committee, it was stated that the Committee 'did not in any way consider itself a Government set up by the Allies, but as an intermediary between the Allies on the one hand and the population of the occupied Palatinate, Bavaria and the Reich on the other. It was specifically stated that this provisional regime would last until peace and order had been restored and until all the administrative machinery had been started. A warning was issued to the people to keep the peace and to refrain from reprisals against the Separatists under...
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