Word: pro-german
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...steel works, although France claimed its machinery as reparations, and put in French managers. While France pressured the Röchlings to sell out to French firms, the Röchlings stalled because they knew the political climate was changing in their favor. When the Saarlanders voted in a pro-German government last year, France capitulated, and this year agreed to sell the Röchling steel holdings back to the Röchlings. The price: $8.5 million in war indemnification, about one-sixth of the plant's worth. The Röchlings agreed to pay. The agreement marked...
...control educational policy. In 1650 Dunster faced attempts to purge the Yard of "antipaedobaptism." Leverett in 1717 was threatened for his "secularism." Eliot in 1885 encountered an organized alumni campaign to block the free elective system. Lowell in 1916 was attacked for the presence on the Faculty of pro-German professors. Conant's mail was constantly enlivened by letters such as that received in 1935 from Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '32, who pointed out that "My Class this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary and an overwhelming majority of its members...are utterly opposed to the New Deal and all its work...
...elect a new Parliament, French newspapers were gloomily telling their readers: "The Saar is lost." After all, only two months before, the German-speaking miners and farmers of the coal-rich Saar basin had seemed to demonstrate their preference for Germany by rejecting (more than two to one) a Franco-German proposal to "Europeanize" them. Yet last week, when the results were in, it was the confident Germans, not the French, who were bitterly disappointed. Pro-German parties won almost two-thirds of the total vote (and 33 out of the 50 seats in Parliament), but they failed...
Under lackluster Dr. Hubert Ney, 62, the pro-German Christian Democrats (an offshoot of Konrad Adenauer's West German C.D.U.) rolled up 25.4% of the vote. The Social Democrats took a beating (14.3% of the vote), trailing far behind the supernationalist right-wing Democrats (24.2%), under ex-Nazi Heinrich Schneider. The big surprise was that tubby little "Jojo" Hoffmann, the Francophile ex-Premier, cornered a solid 21.8% (and 13 seats in Parliament) for his Christian People's Party. Hoffmann's supporters, who favor continued economic collaboration between the Saar and France, cannily reminded middle-class Saarlanders that...
...been able to arrest the Saar's own case of Germanic nationalism. Under Schneider's lashing, personal attacks, the European status had become dangerously linked with the uncertain fortunes of its chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand...