Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army would like that. And those Czechs, who might have been hard to hold down, they would like it, too. A shock, yes, but once more they could feel a real security. Their Führer had again played a masterful stroke, like that march into the Rhineland, like Austria, like Czechoslovakia. ... He was a Genius...
...believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that he got in 1936 from short-lived Premier Sarraut when he told the Government he could chase the Germans out of the Rhineland if they wanted him to. The thoroughgoing General would not agree to shove off, however, without ordering a general mobilization and M. Sarraut feared it was too close to the general election to risk it. The history of Adolf Hitler's aggressions dates from there...
...hrer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
...speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the civil war in Spain, the German seizure of Austria, the Russian-Japanese clash in the Far East, the menacing gestures of Hitler against Czecho-Slovakia-until at Munich the sequence of bluffs, threats, swift moves, force and the threat of force culminated in the panicky weeks of Europe...
...said the Führer, just after marching his troops into the Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles in March 1936. Since the Rhineland was technically part of Germany, the militarization did not qualify as an aggrandizement, but was nevertheless a reassertion of pre-War boundaries...