Word: rhinelander
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Paris. Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
...have been signed by restored King George II early in December but not registered at Geneva as required by the League Covenant. Into Mr. Eden's lap was dumped not only this but charges that Germany is now violating the Treaty of Versailles afresh by militarizing the "demililtarized" Rhineland, plus demands that Britain do something in support of what Mr. Eden calls "Collective Security" by France and her allies against the new German thrust...
...serving four years in the Imperial German Army, Carl von Ossietzky made up his mind once & for all against War. As early as 1921 he was organizing German Peace Society meetings in Berlin, while the remnants of the German Army fought a guerrilla warfare with French troops in the Rhineland...
...town three exercise books filled with bad verse, which he soon afterward denounced as "all flat and formless in feeling; nothing natural about them; everything up in the air." The poet was Karl Heinrich Marx, stocky, dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures which...
...Government succeeded in having him expelled from France. Living in Brussels, he met Engels again, collaborated with him, was arrested after the French revolution of 1848, when the King of the Belgians feared an uprising. Jenny was also arrested, placed in jail with prostitutes. Released, Marx returned to the Rhineland after the outbreak of the German revolution. In Cologne the 30-year-old rebel met two U. S. newspapermen, Albert Brisbane (father of Arthur) and Publisher Charles Dana of the New York Tribune. He deeply impressed them with his "great energy," with the daring spirit evident behind his moderation...