Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion he made a speech following the German occupation of the Rhineland and Hitler later congratulated...
...holds as Premier). M. Daladier could scarcely have failed to realize the dangers of letting a puppet of Italy and Germany take over all Spain. It was reported that he wanted to help the Loyalists, but French diplomacy was again stymied, as it had been when Germany rearmed the Rhineland, absorbed Austria and dismembered Czechoslovakia -and for the same reasons. Britain, pressed the French Government not to precipitate matters.* And in France itself opinion was sharply, almost evenly divided between desire to rescue the Spanish Republic and fear of provoking...
...take me too seriously," the Deputy said. "I am not asking you to make war on Britain, but we ought to clear up a question that threatens to compromise French rights. We have occupation of factories, occupation of the Rhineland, occupation of Ethiopia and now part of French Somaliland and, finally, of the Minquiers Islands. Nobody has ever done anything about any of them...
...Near Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, it was revealed that German laborers had been asked at a Yuletide Labor Front celebration to write on a slip of paper their answer to the question: "What wish would you like to have fulfilled during 1939?" Six slips read: "A new government!" The rebellious laborers were discovered, sent to a concentration camp...
...looking to a peaceful, fair and constructive settlement of the questions at issue." These negotiations were begun fortnight ago at Berchtesgaden, after months of private exchanges between the four European chiefs, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini. They were continued last week at Godesberg, the picturesque Rhineland spa. There the Berchtesgaden Plan, already "accepted unconditionally" by Czechoslovakia, was evaporated last week from cold Peace water into the hissing War steam of Godesberg Demands unexpectedly made by Adolf Hitler...