Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France and Britain. An agreement was promptly reached. At Monday's luncheon they wanted to know without equivocation what France and Britain were prepared to do before they committed themselves. Captain...
What Adolf Hitler will eventually do to get all he wants for Germany is today Europe's most momentous secret. In March the Realmleader sent German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland and a fine-sounding set of peace proposals to Britain (TIME, April 13, et ante). It occurred to Britain's earnest young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that perhaps the best way to find out what Adolf Hitler was thinking was to ask him. He wrote down a list of questions to which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne...
...single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation. They had struck out Captain Eden's question about Hitler's intentions regarding the refortification of the Rhineland. Most important of all, they had struck out every mention of Hitler's demand for "colonial equality of rights" lest the answer be too disagreeable for British public opinion...
...German Press chorused that der Führer had already told the world everything that Mr. Eden wanted to know. The German Foreign Office sat down to take as long as it dared to frame an answer, figuring that the mere passage of time would deflate the so-called Rhineland crisis...
...sent to the League of Nations notes, strictly according to diplomatic etiquet, asking for an opportunity to discuss revision of the Treaty of Lausanne. He explained that his action was motivated by "recent events, particularly because Germany militarily reoccupied the demilitarized Rhineland, which show that the guarantees to Turkey under the 1923 Convention demilitarizing the Dardanelles run the risk of being slow and difficult to apply." In other words, if the onetime Allies could not force Germany to keep the Rhineland demilitarized, how could they be expected to keep the Dardanelles safe against a surprise attack by, say, Italy...