Word: rhineland
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...Raymond Poincare, wife of the Premier of France: " In retaliation for the reputed French annexation policy in the Rhineland, a Cologne newspaper printed an involved analysis of my family tree concluding that I am ' a pure product of old German stock and really belong to Germany.' The long intermingling of nationalities in Alsace-Lorraine is the basis of this claim...
...door, French and Belgians Will Not Be Accommodated. Stinnes said that his workmen in the Ruhr continually urge him to allow them to rise up and throw the French neck and crop out of the country, but he always counsels nonresistance." Peaceful though the occupation of the Rhineland may look on paper, it is real war in the feeling it arouses in the people of the territory...
...they fear may lead to extensive damage in the mines. The French are confident that the Communist strike will soon die down, but this is far from certain. Meanwhile they decline to allow the Germans to deal with the Communists unless they promise to order every man in the Rhineland and the Ruhr back to work...
...must not be overlooked, however, that insidious plans were on foot to upset the Poincaré Ministry on the Ruhr issue. One plan had in view a rapprochement with Britain, the creation of a separate Rhineland state, immediate negotiation with the Germans and the formation of an industrial ministry under the leadership of Loucheur. Poincaré was too strong. It was felt that an attack on his Ruhr policy would be tantamount to admitting the weakness of France. The scheme was dropped. Another plan is on foot, however, to force the Premier to resign on the Near Eastern question...
Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor of The New York World, is justly proud of many things, including a roving reporter, Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Her despatches to The World (about Rudyard Kipling, Ireland, the Rhineland, Constantinople, Mussolini) have just been published under the title West and East, and are prefaced with the remark: " I have lost my belief in the infallibility of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have ceased to believe in equality, freedom or justice...