Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Future events will show that Germany has not surrendered unconditionally to the French. The Stresemann Government is known to have a secret agreement with France, Belgium and Britain guaranteeing to her complete sovereignty in the Ruhr and Rhineland. If for any reason the Allies forsake this agreement, the German Government will still hold the master card. They can throw open the doors of government to Monarchists and Communists and let the Allies do what they like. Such a situation both the Allied and German Governments are extremely anxious to avoid, and this is the greatest guarantee for rehabilitation of Europe...
Separatist posters read: " The Berlin Government has surrendered unconditionally. The break-up is already here. Your only refuge is a Rhineland republic, which alone can give you food and work. The population is called upon to turn out en masse on Sunday...
With France allegedly fostering the Rhineland Separatist movement (which aims at a separate republic for the Rhineland, including the Ruhr), Rhineland Republicans last week were extremely busy. Herr Doktor Josef Matthes, leader of the secessionists, said: " The Rhineland's enemy is Prussia. We have suffered long enough for Berlin's sins. We have had enough of Berlin's paper marks. The time has come for breaking away...
...tranquillity." Shots rang out, men dropped dead, women and children screamed, a panic followed; the security police fired a fusillade, the secessionists replied with guns and cudgels, men, women and children fell dead or wounded. The fight was characterized by "savage brutality, particularly on the part of the Rhineland Separatists." Order was finally restored by the appearance of French cavalry and tanks. Several hundred people were killed and injured...
...seems certain, as far as anything is certain, that the Rhineland will not secede. The Separatists are a noisy minority and the rest of the Reich, chiefly on account of the economic value of the Ruhr, is solid for no separation. Moreover the Allies are pledged to refuse recognition to a Rhineland Republic (see page 7), although there can be no doubt that France would welcome a separate Rhineland State as giving her more protection against future German aggression...