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...Harold G. Villard Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE SAAR HAROLD G. VILLARD New York City I WHEN THE Versailles Peace Treaty detached what is known as the Saar Territory from Germany and placed the direction of the affairs of that highly...

...Helmut Hirsch Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE SAAR PLEBISCITE OF 1935 HELMUT HIRSCH HE OFFICIAL JOURNAL of the League of Nations in January, 1935, reported as follows the vote which was to show whether, after fifteen years of international government, the Saar Territory...

... exchanges at the Paris Conference between Wilson and Clemenceau over the question of the Saar Basin. When the latter made the absurd claim that there were 150,000 Frenchman in the Saar, Wilson accused him of deliberate misstatement. Cle­ menceau retorted hotly that Wilson was pro-German. At the height...

.... The period began with the dramatic German withdrawal from the London Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, but these acts could be inter­ preted as more damaging than helpful to Germany s international posi­ tion. The Saar plebiscite came off smoothly enough in Germany s favor, but the attempted...

.... The period began with the dramatic German withdrawal from the London Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, but these acts could be inter­ preted as more damaging than helpful to Germany s international posi­ tion. The Saar plebiscite came off smoothly enough in Germany s favor, but the attempted...

... to 182 The South Atlantic Quarterly Germany they would have used the same language to express their hatred of Germany. Granting the coal mines of the Saar Valley to France he justifies on the ground that France must have coal and that inasmuch as German atrocity de­ stroyed France s great coal mines...

... as a result of its battles in Lorraine and the Saar (November-December, 1944), the 134th Infantry had received enough replacements before leaving Metz en route to the vicinity of Bastogne to bring it up to full strength. Now these were men whose training had run from six to seventeen weeks, and many had been...

... powers, Rhine bridgeheads to be relinquished, the Rhineland zone to be remilitarized, Fiume to be occupied, and control of German rivers to be relaxed. The Saar was reclaimed within the pattern of the treaty itself. Germans had valid reason to make a distinction which, if made, would have given Europe...

... to some degree against the danger of French supremacy in the iron industry. The control gained by France since the war over the great mineral resources of Alsace Lorraine, the Saar basin and the Ruhr, when added to what she had already possessed before the war, gave her an excellent opportunity to secure...

... period, Georges Lefebvre and J. M. Thompson. In Paris he employed two distinguished research experts to locate documents, and he himself worked in archives in Paris, London, Scotland, Rome, the Saar, and Vienna. He was in touch with the Napoleonic families and golfed with the present Prince de la Moskowa...

... frontier, where he could keep in illegal but effective contact with his old party comrades. He edited the anti-Nazi newspaper Deutsche Freiheit in Saarbriicken till the plebiscite of the Saar population favored the return of the district to Germany. Then his long pilgrimage began. He traveled about Europe...