Word: rhineland
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...whose whole future is tragically linked to whether these men can survive the next five years. Even students in American colleges will remember the lost generation in British and French leadership after the last war; the generation that might have filled the moral breach at the time of the Rhineland, or Auschluss, or Munich. Enlarge that picture to the entire cordon of east-European states and project it fifteen or twenty years into the future. If tuberculosis and the vitality consuming hunt for food are allowed to divert the best minds of east-Europe and China away from their training...
GLEN O. ALLGEYER Rhineland...
...territorial changes. Königsberg and adjacent areas must go to Russia, as already agreed. Silesia and other eastern German regions, however, would not necessarily go to the Soviet-dominated government of the Poles, although now administered by Poland. The Saar would go to France. The Ruhr and the Rhineland, however, would remain German...
...Russians beat mightily on the drum of German unity, especially after Molotov delivered his July 10 stump speech at Paris. "Without the Ruhr and Rhineland Germany cannot live," the Reds said, and the cry was echoed by their German friends. "What are they shouting about?" said most Germans, "they have already had their pound of flesh from Silesia and East Prussia...
From the outside, Schloss Rheydt is just another moated Rhineland castle. Within, it is an art lover's eyeful. There the British have collected German ecclesiastical art treasures, rescued by the Western Allies from their wartime hideouts...