Word: rhineland
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Germany. Water filtering down into the earth from the flooded Rhine Valley slightly weakened the geological substratum of the Rhineland, and caused severe earth tremors, which terrified the already wretched flood refugees. Disastrous landslides took place in the Hartz Mountains. Reserve icebreakers were despatched from Hamburg and Bremen to keep open the badly frozen up shipping routes in the northern Baltic...
...Signatures. Sir Cecil Hurst, taking the Rhineland Security Treaty from an envelope, presented it first** to Dr. Luther and Herr Stresemann, who "laboriously affixed their names without flourishes . . .their bald heads like immense pearls under the powerful spotlights...
...Rhineland Security Treaty was of course not signed by M. Benes or Count Skrzynski, since neither Czechoslovakia nor Poland participates in the pact to guarantee the peace of the Rhine frontier. When the Arbitration and Guarantee Treaties were passed around, however, they had an-opportunity to sign agreements which are expected to make the frontiers between their countries and Germany vastly more secure...
...They consist, as everyone knows, of: the Rhineland Security Treaty among Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Germany ; the four identical Arbitration Treaties between Germany and each of her neighbors, France, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia: and the two identical Franco-Polish and Franco-Czechoslovakian Guarantee Treaties. For their summarized texts see TIME...
...Blue, "the color of peace," was used for the ribbons of the Rhineland Security Treaty. The other treaties have ribbons in which the colors of the signatory powers are interwoven...