Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action. Playing close to the sidelines instead of in the middle of the official field, the Locarno Powers, by means of a British White Paper, had stated the terms on which they would settle the issue of Germany's treaty rupture: 1) occupation of a strip of the Rhineland frontier by British and Italian troops during the period of negotiation; 2) cessation of all German military activities in the Rhineland; 3) adjudication by the World Court of the German charge that the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty violates the Locarno Pact; 4) an international conference for peace. France called...
Most important, Hitler declined to submit the Rhineland dispute to arbitration on the grounds that no international court of law was competent to judge this political case...
...Impertinence, etc." To this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
...London, decided further to send letters to the French and Belgian Governments guaranteeing Britain's assistance in case of war. Mr. Eden announced that the German Peace Plan, though far from satisfactory, was certainly "conciliatory." Could not Germany, Mr. Eden asked, promise at least not to fortify the Rhineland during the period of negotiation? Ambassador von Ribbentrop thought not. Anyway, he said, four months was obviously too short a time in which to match on the German side France's Maginot Line of steel and concrete that had taken five years to build. Mr. Eden pressed the point...
Whenever a new crisis arises in Europe, Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria and Premier Julius Combos of Hungary know what to do. They go to see Benito Mussolini. Hardly had German troops tramped into the Rhineland when Messrs. Schuschnigg & Gombos popped over the Alps. In Rome they attended military reviews, later closeted themselves for hours with Il Duce. What was said privately between Mussolini and his small allies is yet to be told, but it was pretty well indicated last week when bespectacled Chancellor Schuschnigg stood up in the Austrian Diet to demand a new law breaking once more...