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...wives have been blithely registering under both their married and maiden names and, if married more than once, under every other name they ever had. Saarlanders of both sexes have been registering in every district of the Saar in which they ever lived. To all of them-pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League-the present seems no time to stickle...
Strasbourg. Though there are more German-speaking than French-speaking Alsatians, Alsace today is more solidly French in sympathy than it was at the time of the Armistice. There are three reasons: 1) Nationalist and pro-French agitation before the War kept Germany from developing Rhine traffic at Strasbourg; under the French booming Strasbourg now ships over 5,000,000 tons of freight a year. 2) Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends...
...what sort of provision is to be made for the national minorities. Perhaps the best solution is the adoption of some plan like that in use in Lithuania; if this were used the Saar could be awarded to Germany, but only with adequate provision for the protection of the pro-French anti-Nazi minority. Or it might be possible to establish the Saar as an autonomous district under the League, although this would be a very dubious experiment. Whatever is done the year 1935 may be counted on to provide a brilliant display of international fireworks in the Saar Valley...
...Subsidizing pro-French articles in U. S. magazines by prominent authors...
...Government has taken in order to put an end to this state of things in Germany, and whether he has any confirmation of a story that 1,400 people have been put to death in Hamburg alone. . . . What has taken place recently in Germany has completely converted pro-German England into pro-French England...