Word: pro-german
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...Pro-German parties, legally barred from the polls, yammered against French "colonialism," urging the Saarlanders to stay away from the polls or cast blank ballots as a mark of German solidarity. Low-circling planes showered Saarbrücken with German leaflets; startled Saarlanders were assured that they are the victims of a "reign of terror." The Catholic bishop of Trier, whose diocese covers most of the Saar, advised Saarlanders that they had no Christian obligation to vote in an election that would separate them from "the German fatherland...
...gang of toughs burst into the home of 70-year-old George Geiger, a pro-German member of the Saarbrikken City Council, one night last week, and demanded to know whether he was in possession of "illegal pamphlets." When Geiger protested the invasion, he and his family were shoved about; two hours later, the old man died of a heart attack...
...want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...iron and steel. Yet its people are primarily German; in the 1935 League plebiscite, 90% of them voted for union with Germany. French High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval, an ardent Gaullist, was not content with tying the Saar to the French economy, with which it has a natural industrial affinity. He was also determined to de-Germanize the Saar's inhabitants. Children of German-speaking parents must study French in grade school. The franc is the medium of exchange. French occupation authorities also outlawed the Saar's pro-German Democratic Party, censored German newspapers, expelled Catholic priests who opposed...
...will be combatting a misconception about him in Europe -and in the leftish reaches of U.S. politics. Because he was the man who in 1946 carried out the U.S.'s revised economic policy toward Germany-throwing out all traces of the Morgenthau Plan-he became tagged as "pro-German." He was accused of not doing enough to break up German industry; now that German industry is needed in the reconstruction of Western Europe, that criticism lacks its old force, but the prejudice against him persists...