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When the ideas and the background of the Rhineland situation, reparations and national policies lie so misty in the minds of most, General Allen's impressions of Europe should be of the greatest value. People are weary of hearing about the "mess in Europe" but they are weary because they get nothing but second-hand reports and cross-reports. One may be sure that the words of the United States representative on the Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission will be fresh, clarifying and weighty...
...Rhineland Republic. An independent Rhineland Separatist revolt, under the leadership of Herr Leo Deckers and Dr. Guthard, broke out at Aix-la-Chapelle on the Belgian border and the existence of a Rhineland Republic was promulgated after the city had quietly submitted to Separatist troops. The towns of Gladbach, Crefeld, Jülich, Cleve, Duren, Montjoie and Erkelenny were then occupied with more or less resistance. The movement was not successful at Mainz, Rheydt, Coblenz, Triel/ Wanne. The situation was very confused and the news was consequently unreliable. London opinion had it that the movement would not succeed...
...revolt was started without the foreknowledge of Dr. Josef Matthes and Dr. Dorton, the two principal Rhineland Separatists. Immediately after the fall of Aix, Dr. Matthes assumed control of the movement. Dr. Dorten was declared to be on the point of starting a movement for an independent Palatinate Republic, but there was no confirmation of this report...
Unconfirmed rumors were abroad that the Berlin Government had offered to recognize a Rhineland Republic within the Reich. The offer, which may have been made, is not likely to be accepted owing to the fervent hostility of the Separatists toward Prussia, which is the dominating State in the Reich...
...true that the French have any wish or inclination to incite a rebellion in the Rhineland. This is no matter of theirs." I agree with you that it is no matter of theirs. Unfortunately, the powers that be in your country think otherwise. Ray Stannard Baker in his "Woodrew Wilson and World Settlement", II, 87 substantiating a report of General Pershing, relates that on May 22, 1919, General Mangin, commanding general of the French army at Mainz, sent a colonel of his staff to General Liggett's headquarters at Coblenz to inquire what the American attitude would be toward...