Word: rhinelander
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...speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the civil war in Spain, the German seizure of Austria, the Russian-Japanese clash in the Far East, the menacing gestures of Hitler against Czecho-Slovakia-until at Munich the sequence of bluffs, threats, swift moves, force and the threat of force culminated in the panicky weeks of Europe...
...said the Führer, just after marching his troops into the Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles in March 1936. Since the Rhineland was technically part of Germany, the militarization did not qualify as an aggrandizement, but was nevertheless a reassertion of pre-War boundaries...
...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...