Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barb Two: Germany is scrupulously fulfilling her Versailles Treaty obligations. Therefore, reminded Herr Müller, the Allies are reciprocally obligated (by a clause in the Treaty) to reward German good behavior with some such concession as early evacuation of the Rhineland...
Finally, having rubbed the wrong way Germany, Russia and all who hate "secret diplomacy," Aristide Briand cooled serenely down. He concluded that he was now ready to discuss with the German and Allied plenipotentiaries at Geneva what should be done, after all, about evacuating the Rhineland...
Deliberations by the Assembly were principally confined to stereotyped laudations of the Kellogg Treaty by all hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
...Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs...
Died. Victor Alexander Fereld Hay, 52, for one year 20th Earl of Erroll and 24th Hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland, at Coblenz, Germany, where he had been British High Commissioner of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission since 1921; of heart disease...