Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one incident during President Paul von Hindenburg's tour of the 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...
...Rhineland celebration ended right there. Old Paul immediately canceled the rest of his trip, donated money to a relief fund, motored back to Berlin, rested his weary feet. In the morning, every jubilant German flag that had fluttered from Holland to Switzerland was at half-staff. Crepe shrouded triumphal arches throughout the Rhineland...
...tempestuous Reichstag there were shouts of "Down with Hindenburg!" last week (see col. 2), but no such blatant outburst marred the triumphant passage of Old Paul through the newly liberated Rhineland (TIME, July 14 et seq.). In city after city massed thousands greeted the venerable president first with a reverent hush, then with a tornado of delirious "hochs...
Knowing that Old Paul was about to begin a triumphal tour of the liberated Rhineland, Dr. Otto Braun, Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, refused to relax his rule that Stahlhelm members may not parade or demonstrate in Rhenish Prussia, which includes such an important city as Coblenz. "This is unequal treatment which I find unbearable!" wrote the President to Dr. Braun last week and threatened to omit Prussia's end of the Rhineland from his tour...
...Braun remained inflexible. Suddenly the acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr. Braun accepted it, gave per-mission for the Stahlhelm parades. Disgruntled, Old Paul put Rhenish Prussia back on the itinerary of his triumphal tour (see below...