Word: rhinelander
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...Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved. Books of tickets, each worth five or ten pfennigs, are available to generous citizens at the City Hall. Upon being accosted, instead of handing the ragged one money, so often misgiven to impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute...
...Because France and England fear that if Germany came to the conference she might present statistics to show that France and England are allegedly over armed and have been acting high-handedly in the Rhineland...
Hundreds of torches flamed in the great square before the Cathedral of Cologne. Over 100,000 Rhinelanders waited breathlessly for the largest church bell in Europe to toll the hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined...
Toward the League. Foreign Minister Stresemann made good use of the kindly feelings engendered in German hearts by the evacuation of Cologne. While the Rhineland celebration was still at its height, Herr Stresemann publicly announced that but for the Locarno Pacts the Allies would have delayed still longer before evacuating Cologne. Ergo, it behooved Germany to hurry up and enter the League of Nations as provided in the Locarno treaties (TIME, Nov. 2). Next day the astute Herr Stresemann convoked the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag, demanded and received its authority to apply unconditionally to the League for Germany...
...Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting the evacuation of the Rhineland. The effect was electrical and cleared the air for the Government considerably...