Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts are facts, and last week what was actually being done in Germany had great effect on what was being decided in London. There, in a most exhausting morning, afternoon and all-night session, statesmen of the Great Powers and the League of Nations sought to grapple with the Rhineland Crisis created by Adolf Hitler when he sent his troops goose-stepping onto German Rhineland soil from which they were barred by Germany's signature to the treaties of Locarno and Versailles. The sentiments of the London statesmen could not help being affected by the unprecedented methods by which...
Since the Rhineland is German soil, the election might have seemed a setup, the issue foolproof. Yet last week Adolf Hitler was taking no chances...
Brothers-in-Law. If treaty-breaking, Rhineland-remilitarizing Germany was to feel the punishing rod of that "collective security" to which every British statesman pays verbal tribute, the co-operation of His Majesty's Government with France was essential. Last week opened with Britain's Cabinet still split for & against Adolf Hitler (TIME, March...
...fact last week that the violent treaty rupture committed by vegetarian & teetotaling Adolf Hitler should be defended and explained to the Council of the League of Nations gathered in beef-eating Britain by a onetime Rhine wine salesman whose duty was to champion & excuse remilitarization of the Rhineland...
...hoped by pro-Germans in the Baldwin Cabinet that Joachim von Ribbentrop would have something new to offer or suggest. Instead his speech to the Council last week was a paraphrase of Orator Hitler's brawling Reichstag speech ten days before. Germany's excuse for remilitarizing the Rhineland remained her contention that France and Russia, by concluding a mutual assistance treaty, violated and thereby voided the Locarno Pact under which remilitarization of the Rhineland is barred as it is also barred under the Treaty of Versailles. Juridically the German case was so feeble as to be almost...