Word: rhinelander
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...declared that hulking, slow-moving, English-speaking Pierre Etienne Flandin would be "more apt" than his predecessor at "collaboration." The new Foreign Minister, also a veteran politician, has always been pro-German. It was he who as Premier in 1934 prevented French action when the Nazis marched into the Rhineland, and he consistently advocated a free hand for Hitler in Eastern Europe, provided he left France alone. Following Munich, he telegraphed the Führer his congratulations on his bloodless victory...
...lengthening nights made it easy to make the 1,100-odd-mile round-trip flight in darkness. Then R. A. F. raids on Berlin left the "manifestation" stage, began to work up toward the deadly thoroughness that long ago forced evacuation of thousands of nonessential inhabitants of the industrial Rhineland and Ruhr, some to as far as the country districts around German-held Paris. Berlin "the unbombable" reeled under bombs. It hurt. And Adolf Hitler, who has always claimed it was the German home front and not the Army which collapsed in 1918, knew that danger well...
Perhaps the most effective accomplishment of the Jesuits in all their four centuries was their part in the Roman Catholic Church's 16th-Century Counter-Reformation against Protestantism. In 1550, Protestantism seemed on the verge of a sweeping triumph in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Bavaria and the Rhineland. By 1600, thanks largely to the Jesuits, these regions again were Catholic...
Hans Zinsser was born in New York City of German parents from the Rhineland. His father was a prospering chemist. The young man went to Columbia, decided to be a writer, switched to biology, then to medicine. When he saw that most of his patients were scared by his fanatical thoroughness, he turned to research and teaching. During World War I he went to Serbia to fight the typhus which ravaged that country after the Austrian invasion, later served with the U. S. Army in France in the Medical Corps. For the past 17 years he was professor of bacteriology...
Answer: Germans did in the Rhineland occupied areas after the Armistice in World War I. I happen to know because I was the American Representative on the Rhineland Interallied Military Commission that provided food for the civilian population...