Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victors' heels, and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1929 called it "the greatest measure of self-preservation yet taken by Europeans." He still thinks well...
...world's swift and calamitous change-the Depression, the rise of Hitler -passed Locarno by. In 1936 Hitler broke the pact by sending German troops into the Rhineland. Neither France nor Britain moved a muscle. Anthony Eden, then as now Britain's Foreign Secretary, while admitting that his confidence in Germany's word had been "profoundly shaken," told the House of Commons: "There is, I am thankful to say, no reason to suppose that the present German action implies a threat of hostilities. The German government speak ... of their 'unchangeable longing for a real pacification...
...also led the movement to establish the new German capital in his native Rhineland. "The future capital of Germany should be located among the vineyards," said he, "not in potato fields." One by one, Adenauer ticked off the other possibilities: Berlin-"a city where the monkeys still swing from the trees"; Frankfurt-"too immoral." Adenauer plumped for Bonn, which, conveniently, was within easy commuting distance from his home in Rhöndorf. As usual, he got what he wanted...
Protestant & Catholic. There were two Germanys in the world long before the Allies of 1945 divided the country into an Eastern zone and a Western. The culture of each was built and nurtured on religious traditions. The smaller of the Germanys, in the Rhineland and Bavaria, was and is largely Roman Catholic and bourgeois, the Germany of Munich, the old Rhenish bishoprics and the industrial Ruhr. This is the Germany of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It thinks back, with some nostalgia, to the European and Catholic unity of the Holy Roman Empire. Catholic voters, a decisive force through history...
...comparison of his own foreign policy and that of F.D.R. Sketching in the background of the U.S. decision to intervene in Korea-"the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President"-Truman recalled the easy conquests of aggressor nations in the 1930s-Manchuria, Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia. He went on: "Think about those years of weakness and indecision and World War II. which was their evil result. Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World...