Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of a separate state in the Rhineland is as old as the two countries whom it most concerns. Perhaps it is older, for the headquarters of Charlemagne's empire, from which both France and Germany and sprung, was situated at Aix-la-Chapelle. Ever since Charles the Bold and Ludwig the German in 870 divided the territory of their nephew Lo thair between them, Lotharingia has been the victim of the conflicting ambitions of France and Germany. Although originally Alsace and the lower Rhine were given to Germany and Lorraine was alloted to France, neither country has been content...
...policy." As a result the Entente Cordiale is said to be closer than it has been for months. The Allies wait for the official end of passive resistance, which Chancellor Stresemann was reported to have "announced." following a five-hour conference with 300 representative spokesmen from the Ruhr and Rhineland at which it was "unanimously agreed that further opposition was futile...
...stamp of the propaganda factory. He believes that business men should be given charge of international relations. He contends that M. Poincaré, whom he does not believe an imperialist, made a mistake in invading the Ruhr, and asserts that a customs frontier along the already occupied Rhineland would have secured reparations cash without arousing the nationalist feelings of Germany; that, for all French protestations, France is in a far more stable economic condition than England, despite the fiscal disparity...
...account of reparations as well as security. Herr Gustav Stresemann is expected to call off passive resistance as soon as his Government has received Franco-Belgian assurances that Germany will be given complete control in the Ruhr and that German sovereignty will be allowed to reassert itself in the Rhineland...
...Stresemann Government ordered the German population in the Ruhr and Rhineland to cease passive resistance against the Franco-Belgian occupation...