Word: rhinelanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Cologne in the Rhineland a huge German air liner droned up and away to London at 90 miles an hour. As it flew, roaring mightily, over the English Channel, passengers looked down at a plodding tug, a pudgy craft capable of perhaps eight miles per hour...
...Briand must be arrested. . . . His Locarno policy is leading him toward the traitorous iniquity of abandoning the Rhineland to Germany. . . . When the mob learns how he is stripping from France her only safeguard, the day will come when M. Briand will be glad to be arrested and jailed beyond the reach of hands that tear and gouge...
...Landau* a French officer was tried by a French Court Martial last week for killing a German citizen and wounding two others last September at Germersheim (TIME, Oct. 11) in the occupied Rhineland. The Court acquitted the accused, Lieutenant Rouzier, of manslaughter on the grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded...
Naturally the German press blazed wrath. Cried the Tagliche Rundschau, organ of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann: "This infamous blemish on French justice in the occupied Rhineland is a blow with the fist in the face of the German people...
...welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last met (TIME, Oct. 11). The so august and so friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their joint policy during the mid-December session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva...