Word: rhineland
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...Brooklyn realtor, Bertrand Coles Neidecker sold bonds, went to France in 1916, joined the Lafayette Escadrille, won several decorations. After the War, he remained in Europe, setting himself up as a money changer to U. S. troops in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland. His Paris bank, a logical sequel, was started in 1921, catered to itinerant U. S. citizens and French aristocrats...
...Germany will observe all treaties now in force, even those signed by previous Socialist German governments. Particularly, she will observe the Locarno Pact (as long as the other signatories do) and the prohibitions against fortifying the Rhineland...
Bent on dedicating German youths to some other God than the sire of Christ, zealots of the Ludendorffist German Faith movement celebrated Easter with vague but impassioned rites. At Hamburg, Leipzig and in the Rhineland, bands of German boys and girls stepped out briskly under what was called "the blue banner of the German Faith, with its golden sunwheel, the Viking flag of the revolution of the German soul...
Pouncing on the ancient Carmelite monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks...
...ennobled about 1390, one branch of whose descend ants went to France, while the others moved east to Prussia and the Polish border. The French branch of the family still exists; the French army contains a General Baron Jean de Gail who as a colonel served on the Interallied Rhineland Commission. The von Gayls and de Gails remain on the best of terms, a fact which saved the life of one of them during the War.* When the von Papen Cabinet seized control of Germany and effectively doubled the army by taking over the Prussian state police, no French newspaper...