Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defending the negative side of "Resolved, That Hitler was justified in taking troops into the Rhineland" at Exeter, Crimson speakers will be Sherman M. Maisel, Clare L. Milton, Jr., and James Tobin, while Murray L. Silberstein will fill the alternate's position...
...Wednesday's "Crimson" there appears another editorial on the Rhineland crisis, and a letter from Professor Francon containing three questions, unsolved by your previous analyses. No doubt these could be answered by still another editorial; but in order, if possible, to forestall that eventuality, I am attempting an answer...
...answers given to M. Francon's pertinent questions concerning the Rhineland dispute show that the German people are not alone in their gullibility and willingness to accept Hitler's speeches as utterances of sincerity. From the beginning it has been the purpose of the Nazi government to play loudest on the note that the Reich means peace, and will break every treaty in Europe if necessary to insure that peace...
...Versailles pact limb from limb at the beginning of his reign realize that the breaking of Locarno, a covenant freely made by the Second Reich under no compulsion whatsoever, presents quite a different problem. The question still holds: against whom is Germany defending herself? As long as the demilitarized Rhineland existed it was impossible to conceive of France as guilty of designs upon her eastern neighbor. During the last two weeks the situation has admittedly changes; the world-defying stroke of Nazi Germany accomplished that if nothing else...
...course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...