Word: rhinelander
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...parents had repudiated it even before birth. The other nations had little more time or use for it, as it shifted about Geneva's hired halls. When at last in 1936 it moved into its own $10-million Geneva home, Hitler was also moving-into the Rhineland...
Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...
...Germany's Communist Party continued its agitation for "national unity," flatly announced that it would fight separation of the Ruhr and Rhineland from the rest of the Fatherland...
...assumption of hourly and daily responsibilities have made him older than his years. Treat this as a fact but not as a problem. . . . He will not fit a generalization. He may be coming from the swampy, malaria-infected South Pacific ... an action field in Normandy or the Rhineland . . . from a prison camp. . . . Forty lads coming back from 40 fronts may have had 40 very different experiences. The little homeside church, that bade him Godspeed and a safe return so many months ago, will have to deal with them as individuals...
...Rhineland the U.S. occupation army chose a governor for the largest political entity yet carved out of conquered Germany...