Great Britain and the Saar Plebiscite of 13 January 1935

The Saar Basin, 730 square miles with a population in excess of 800,000, was uniformly German in race, speech, traditions and culture. The traces of French civilization imposed on the area during the Great Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century had all but disappeared before the advent of the first world war. Yet the French Government, determined on compensation for the heavy losses during the fighting, eyed the region keenly as the source of coal for the iron industry of Lorraine now that the French mines in the north of the

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