Word: rhinelanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lloyd George, made the statement (in a signed article in The New York World and other papers) that the late ex-President Wilson and ex-Premier Clemenceau of France took advantage of his temporary absence in England to sign a secret agreement at Paris, allowing France to occupy the Rhineland for 15 years. Mr. George was quoted as adding: "Yet I have always been attacked by many people in England as the villain of that piece." After a pause Mr. George was alleged to have continued: "Yes, I have just received the documents from the Foreign Office. The French...
...PREMIER VITTORIO E. ORLANDO, Italian Plenipotentiary at the Paris Peace Conference (who "resentfully refused to comment" on Mr. Wilson's death): "President Wilson gave up his opposition to M. Clemenceau's plan with regard to the Rhineland in order to buy Clemenceau's support for Wilson's schemes against Italy's aspirations. The fact that an agreement was reached between President Wilson and M. Clemenceau on the Rhine was common knowledge at the Paris Conference. I knew of its existence only to the same extent as Mr. Lloyd George knew...
...attributed to me. . . . I was called away from Paris to London . . . to take part in important discussions. . . . I found on my return to Paris that an agreement had been arrived at between President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau on two very important issues. One was the military occupation of the Rhineland. . . . To describe this agreement as a 'secret compact' between the late President Wilson and M. Clemenceau is ridiculous. President Wilson, I need hardly say, acted with perfect loyalty...
...Resolutions were passed denouncing William Z. Foster, communist, against the use of injunctions in labor disputes, demanding immediate evacuation of the Rhineland by the Allies, favoring the classification of "miner's asthma" as an occupational disease under the Workmen's Compensation...
...appeal to all those in the world who have still preserved their human feelings and respect for international law to work toward the end that legal conditions be restored in the Ruhr and Rhineland, and that, above all, the innocent Germans suffering in prisons be returned to their families and that the exiled be permitted to return home...