Word: irredentists
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...apostles of French culture professed themselves amazed and were, perhaps, disconcerted by Hitler's abortive coup in Bavaria. Poincaré had already telegraphed the French Ambassador in Berlin that this was the sort of thing that France could not tolerate. The astute Ludendorff as military leader and the Irredentist Hitler as political leader of an intransigent Bavaria, threatened the right flank of any possible French " march to Berlin." Should such leaders overthrow the Reich, France would be bound to act. The French General Staff foresaw " the necessity for certain military measures to protect the French troops in the Ruhr...
However, the Little Entente demanded, in return for this concession, certain guarantees on the Hungarian side, including the discontinuance of Hungarian irredentist propaganda in the three countries and representation of the Little Entente upon the Control Commission, which will see that the loan is applied to curing Hungary's financial difficulties...