Word: rhine
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Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...
...coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the Karlsruhe, invited all Tanga's remaining German colonists, piled the long table with a little forest of slender Rhine wine bottles...
...liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
...Kreuznach on the Rhine, G.H.Q. of the German Army from August 1916 to February 1918, gallant, gruff old President Paul von Hindenburg last week halted his triumphal tour of the liberated Rhine provinces (TIME, July 14 et seq.) to stalk stiffly about the buildings where he had worked so long, so dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn...
...more of standing around listening to Mayors and Männerchor was a terrifying prospect, but the day at Coblenz passed as smoothly as the first part of the trip. The von Hindenburgs landed at Deutsches Eck, "German Corner," the little promontory of land where the Moselle flows into the Rhine, sacred to sentimentalists as the "Heart of Germany," listened to singing schoolchildren, attended a municipal banquet...