Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty little Rhineland towns like Bad Schwalbach and Koenigstein bade stolid, silent farewells last week to British troops who have been quartered in the vicinity of Wiesbaden all through the decade since...
According to the Treaty of Versailles the troops would have stayed until Jan. 30, 1935, but at the Hague Conference where the Young Plan was adopted and British Chancellor Snowden got his piece of "spongecake" (TIME, Sept. 9), the whole theory of Rhineland occupations was scrapped and Britain, France and Belgium agreed to withdraw the last of their troops before June...
...major political concession which Dr. Stresemann has sought for years-one for which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
...Christmas? Speaking with vigor and emotion Dr. Stresemann urged that the Allied troops be withdrawn from the Rhineland by Christmas...
Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...