Word: negerregierung
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...League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany or turned over to France...
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