Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought by some that Mr. Jentsch, whose opinion of present developments in the Rhineland is printed in this issue, is somewhat prejudiced in Germany's favor. Thoughtful people will probably agree with him, however, when he says that the Separatist movement in the Rhineland is not so serious as it appears. It is a not unreasonable conjecture that France has aided and abetted the present movement. Certainly she has made living conditions in the occupied regions extraordinarily difficult; and since her reparations bill must appear to the world so high as to be beyond hope of collection in full...
...even granting that France has had such a purpose, it cannot be held that she has, entirely by her own efforts, created and fostered the movement. Although the Rhineland may be fundamentally German, as Mr. Jentsch says, she has always been far from thoroughly Prussian. In fact until within little more than a half century all of the German states formed merely a loose confederacy of semi-feudal governments. Feuds and jealousies were rife between them and only a powerful and autocratic central government was able finally to bind them into a nation. Hence a separate state in the Rhineland...
Grave disorders occurred at Berlin and in the Rhineland, caused by a serious food shortage. Riots and pillaging of shops occurred at many points and there were some clashes with police forces. Many people were killed and many were injured...
...announcement made yesterday by C. P. Fordyce, 1L graduate secretary of the Union. General Allen has a notable war record. In July of 1919 he become the commander-in-chief of the American forces on the Rhine and later become the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission. He will speak on "The European Situation...
...French Government declined to make any move toward opening negotiations with the Germans until passive resistance stops throughout the Rhineland and until payments in kind from Germany " have resumed their regular movement." Meanwhile, the whole of Europe is hung in a state of alarmed suspense...