Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shady "deal" signed in Paris but a sturdy British White Paper announced to the world last week the terms on which Britain, France, Italy and Belgium are willing to settle with Germany the issue of Adolf Hitler's treaty-breaking remilitarization of the Rhineland...
...further German forces enter the Rhineland and no fortifications are erected there...
Significance. The releasing in London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead...
...still vacationing in the U. S. There was but one U. S. presentee outside the diplomatic circle: Mr. Caesar Augustin Grasselli.* Seated on a glittering throne, the new Sovereign received in all approximately 1,000 men-including the envoys of the Great Powers now bickering over the Rhineland Crisis (see p. 24)-in the record average time of 3½ seconds each...
...most deeply moving peace overtures to France, Orator Adolf Hitler cried: "The German Government sees in the respecting of the demilitarized [Rhineland] zone a contribution to the pacification of Europe...