Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little imminent danger of a war in Europe as a direct result of Hitler's movement of troops into the Rhineland, said William L. Langer '15, associate professor of History, in an interview yesterday...
...Hitler's action was easily explainable and was merely executed in self-defense" he declared. "If a state such as New York or Massachusetts were left unguarded against foreign enemies, our immediate instinct would be to fortify it, and that is just what Hitler has done with the Rhineland...
...question of invading another country's territory" he continued. "The Rhineland belongs to Germany and is populated with Germans. Of course people are alarmed because the Locarno Treaty has been violated, but Hitler's desire to have control over a region which Germany owns is perfectly understandable...
Paris. Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
...have been signed by restored King George II early in December but not registered at Geneva as required by the League Covenant. Into Mr. Eden's lap was dumped not only this but charges that Germany is now violating the Treaty of Versailles afresh by militarizing the "demililtarized" Rhineland, plus demands that Britain do something in support of what Mr. Eden calls "Collective Security" by France and her allies against the new German thrust...