Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serving four years in the Imperial German Army, Carl von Ossietzky made up his mind once & for all against War. As early as 1921 he was organizing German Peace Society meetings in Berlin, while the remnants of the German Army fought a guerrilla warfare with French troops in the Rhineland...
...town three exercise books filled with bad verse, which he soon afterward denounced as "all flat and formless in feeling; nothing natural about them; everything up in the air." The poet was Karl Heinrich Marx, stocky, dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures which...
...Government succeeded in having him expelled from France. Living in Brussels, he met Engels again, collaborated with him, was arrested after the French revolution of 1848, when the King of the Belgians feared an uprising. Jenny was also arrested, placed in jail with prostitutes. Released, Marx returned to the Rhineland after the outbreak of the German revolution. In Cologne the 30-year-old rebel met two U. S. newspapermen, Albert Brisbane (father of Arthur) and Publisher Charles Dana of the New York Tribune. He deeply impressed them with his "great energy," with the daring spirit evident behind his moderation...
...Brooklyn realtor, Bertrand Coles Neidecker sold bonds, went to France in 1916, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, won several decorations. After the War, he remained in Europe, setting himself up as a money changer to U. S. troops in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. His Paris bank, a logical sequel, was started in 1921, catered to itinerant U. S. citizens and French aristocrats...
...Germany will observe all treaties now in force, even those signed by previous Socialist German governments. Particularly, she will observe the Locarno Pact (as long as the other signatories do) and the prohibitions against fortifying the Rhineland...