Word: rhineland
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...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
Evacuation of the Rhineland has been discussed for nine years. It has been in progress for four and a half years. The outside world paid little attention last week to what was the passing of actually the last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...
German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
...Catholic Centre Party, which holds a key position in the German Government coalition, draws its strength chiefly from voters in the Rhineland, and these were in a ferment of fear last week lest the "new" and "immoral" Young Plan conjured up by Dr. Schacht should give France the right to reoccupy the Rhineland in case Germany defaults on her Reparations payments...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...