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However, it will not always be possible or desirable to reassert all the 1933 boundaries, especially where they may have been set aside by subsequent votes of self-determination or where they may have become clearly impracticable. Thus, Germany should keep the Saar Territory which it recovered in 1935 by a free and fair plebiscite and with the blessing of the League of Nations. Russia will keep the "Russian" territories noted above which she occupied in 1939-40, some of which were clearly too small and weak for an independent existence and voted (under pressure, to be sure) to become...
...effulgent moon lighted the way to German U-boat yards at Flensburg on the Baltic. Munich, Naziism's spawning ground, and the Saar industrial basin were also raided. Swiss reports said that damage to Munich had caused the cancellation of a big Nazi party...
Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...
...March 1, 1935, he got the Saar by plebiscite. On March 7, 1936, he reoccupied the Rhineland. On March 13, 1938, he marched into Austria. On March 15, 1939, he occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia. On April 9, 1940, he absorbed Denmark and invaded Norway. On April 6, 1941, he drove into Yugoslavia and Greece...
Died. George Washington Stephens, 75, Commissioner of the Saar Valley (1926-27); after a year's illness; in Los Angeles...