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...Rhineland so recently freed of the last French troops (TIME, July 14), life continued exciting last week for "Separatists" (advocates of an independent Rhineland Republic) and suspect French-sympathizers. Their noses were punched, their houses wrecked, their clothes torn, their shops gutted with delirious crowds of Pan-German youths storming up and down the ''liberated provinces...
Technically, riots in the Rhineland are now the business of Germany alone, but last week official France was annoyed. Shaggy-headed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand paid an official visit of protest to the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin French Ambassador Pierre de Margerie paid another to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. At a meeting of French War veterans at Lencloitre, near Poitiers, French Minister of Justice Raoul Peret cried...
...appointed hour we fulfilled our promise and our troops evacuated the Rhineland! One would have expected our former enemy to show some appreciation of our good faith, but instead we have witnessed manifestations against France...
...Kaiserslautern, south of Mainz, the celebration took a more serious turn. The superpatriotic crowd turned to raiding and wrecking the homes of "Separatists" people who had advocated the formation of a separate "Rhineland Republic" during the French occupation...
Germans who committed political crimes or acts of treason between Nov. 9, 1918 and Dec. 1, 1924 rejoiced exceedingly last week. The six-year period thus delimited was the era of attempted putsches to restore the Hohenzollerns, the period when "Separatists" in the Rhineland agitated to set up a Rhineland Republic. Last week the German Reichstag with a stately gesture wiped this huge, dirty slate clean, declared a general amnesty for the benefit of persons so fortunate as to have committed their political crimes or treasons between the dates specified...