Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhine police had been unable to deal with rioters at once because by the terms of the Versailles Treaty the Rhineland was not allowed a sufficient number of police for her needs...
...Additional police from other parts of Germany were already being rushed last week into the Rhineland...
Technically, riots in the Rhineland are now the business of Germany alone, but last week official France was annoyed. Shaggy-headed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand paid an official visit of protest to the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin French Ambassador Pierre de Margerie paid another to German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius. At a meeting of French War veterans at Lencloitre, near Poitiers, French Minister of Justice Raoul Peret cried...
...appointed hour we fulfilled our promise and our troops evacuated the Rhineland! One would have expected our former enemy to show some appreciation of our good faith, but instead we have witnessed manifestations against France...
...entire French press was pettish over the fact that Germany has said no official "Thank You" to France for evacuating the Rhineland...