Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...status in which he can again become, as he was for some years, the general around whom other German generals rallied in their frequent moments of friction with the Nazi Party. The generals, especially Fritsch, have always in the past opposed bold Nazi strokes-like remilitarization of the Rhineland-which might lead to war should the Hitler bluff be called. The recall of Fritsch, however, was susceptible of another interpretation: that the army may think the time is approaching when it will be prepared to back up a Hitler bluff successfully with arms...
Some genealogists claim that Rochefeuille or Rocquefeuille was the original name of the oil clan Rockefeller. Last week, a Dr. Yoss, archivist from the Rhineland, announced from Berlin that the Rockefeller ancestors were originally called Rockenfeller. Commented John D.'s 26-year-old grandson Winthrop: "interesting...
...beginning of a chain of events that led directly to much of the present difficulty in which the world finds itself. Four years later Germany announced its adoption of rearmament and conscription in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, and the next year came the occupation of the Rhineland...
...There have been two occasions in which Germany feared France. One was at the time of the reoccupation of the Rhineland and the other on the occasion of the official proclamation announcing Germany's rearmament. I can admit quite frankly today that . . . The Führer and we all were in fear and anxiety then. Today those fears have passed! There can no longer be any question of a 'promenade' from Paris to Berlin. That was once- but will never be again...
...French Army, Navy and Air Force were recently coordinated for quick action in emergencies under a new Super General Staff (TIME, Jan. 31), and a reason given for this was that lack of such coordination had "paralyzed" what might otherwise have been quick French action after Hitler invaded the Rhineland. But there was last week no Cabinet in France at the moment, and to the Austrian Government, calling frantically from Vienna, the Quai d'Orsay had to reply that "in the circumstances" no action likely to check the German advance could be taken by France...