Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arbiters!" declared the Foreign Secretary. "We are guarantors of a treaty. We have certain commitments and they are very definite. . . . The demilitarized [Rhineland] zone embodied in the Versailles Treaty was for time without limit. It was an enduring undertaking...
...During the period of negotiation British and Italian troops occupy a zone in Germany 12½ miles wide bordering the French Frontier...
...most deeply moving peace overtures to France, Orator Adolf Hitler cried: "The German Government sees in the respecting of the demilitarized [Rhineland] zone a contribution to the pacification of Europe...
...nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...
...weeks ago Flandin journeyed across the Channel demanding nothing less than war on Germany to remove the troops from the Rhineland. Since that stormy day, crushed by elephantine proctocol and the reluctance of Britain to see beyond her nose, France has recognized the hopelessness of her position. The Neutral Zone plan was foisted upon French statesmen with the "take it or leave it" attitude in which Britain has always been an expert...