Word: rhinelander
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...first they had plenty of U. S., British and French soldiers. Definitely the apple-cheeked wenches of the Rhineland are open-armed to soldiers. One day last week they could be seen giggling from thousands of windows in such great cities as Cologne, Aachen, Frankfort and Düsseldorf as wild, electric rumors sped that Prohibition of German soldiers was almost over...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...preliminary squadron of nine German battle planes had come thundering from the direction of Berlin to wheel around the spires of Cologne Cathedral and then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...
Then, with the stamping, straight-legged step of geese, came the first of 19 thrilling INFANTRY BATTALIONS and 13 ARTILLERY BATTALIONS who were soon to star the Rhineland with nine GLORIOUS GARRISONS. In Cologne ecstasy was indescribable as soldiers, Soldiers, SOLDIERS with red car nations peeping from their belts came goose-stepping smartly into the Cathedral Square and were reviewed by a real GERMAN GENERAL in full uniform with twinkling medals, Lieut. General Günther von Kluge. As a climax a tiny Rhineland girl toddled up to von Kluge, gave the general his own big bouquet...
...horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...