Word: rhinelander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still curly-headed, stood in the British Admiralty building in Whitehall to welcome, as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Royal Navy, high French and Belgian officers for one of the most important meetings since the War. As a result of the German Army's reoccupation of the Rhineland, Britain, France and Belgium were admitting to the world that they were preparing for war with Germany by holding a conference of their General Staff officers...
Editor Grey was enraged at France's supposed intention of sending French Moroccan troops to police the Rhineland. Cried he, "A typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...Wartime losers who now propose to shrug off their post-war penalties, Turkey had picked the best time to make the best case. Germany last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist...
...chairman of the Harvard delegation which represented Australia at this year's convention of the League in Williamstown. Dean was responsible for the introduction of a resolution whereby the Rhineland crisis superseded the Italo-Ethiopian question as the principal subject of debate...
...threat of Nazi domination in Europe. Before leaving for Geneva he had given the Sarraut Cabinet France's rebuttal to Adolf Hitler's plan for European peace (TIME, April 13). Insisting on 25 years of status quo, a definite promise from Germany not to fortify the Rhineland and an international police force to keep the peace, the Flandin Plan was taken no more seriously in Geneva than it was elsewhere in Europe...