Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government protested to the Council of Ambassadors against the action of the Rhineland Commission abolishing the office of German High Commissioner for the Rhineland, held by Prince von Hatzfeld. The communication asserts that the Supreme Council created the office and recognized the Prince, and that therefore the Rhineland Commission had no power...
Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor of The New York World, is justly proud of many things, including a roving reporter, Mrs. Clare Sheridan. Her despatches to The World (about Rudyard Kipling, Ireland, the Rhineland, Constantinople, Mussolini) have just been published under the title West and East, and are prefaced with the remark: " I have lost my belief in the infallibility of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have ceased to believe in equality, freedom or justice...
...which, while it lacked the fire and brimstone of oratorical genius, was after all more a categorical denunciation of French "violence" in the Ruhr than an attempt to define German policy. He claimed that the French were acting against the Versailles Treaty devised by the other Powers; that the Rhineland High Commission had sold itself without restriction to the French. He said that he doubted whether France came into the Ruhr for reparations and that her action made it impossible for Germany to estimate her capacity to pay. Toward the end of his speech Cuno, changing from the passive...
...occupation of the Ruhr, France seeks to dominate Europe for the next 50 years," said Mr. Pierrepont Noyes, former American commissioner in the Rhineland, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...Germany in an economic war, and the pursuance of this policy can only result in political consequences of a very serious nature. It is the evident purpose of France to dominate Europe, and the first political consequence of this effort will be the separation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland from Germany. This will in all probability not be added to the territory of France, but will be set up as a buffer state against Germany. Since the day of the Dr. Dorten rebellion in 1919 this has been my prediction...