France would then, geographically and industrially, possess the Saar Basin, which seems essential for French industry." The first plan was evidently to claim the Saar as being a sort of annex of ...

Bustle, dash and wide-awake words became suddenly the fashion in drowsy French officialdom when Andre Tardieu, "The Most American of Frenchmen," stepped up to power (TIME, Nov. 11). News last ...

AMONG the many controverted chapters of the Treaty of Versailles that disposing of the Saar Basin is one of the least generally understood. Like the rest of the treaty, this has been rarely read by ...

Two days before the people of the Saar went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, French newspapers were gloomily telling their readers: "The Saar is lost." After all, only two months ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that France’s recognition of a Palestinian state would distance “peace, security and stability in our region”. Saar’s remarks were posted on X in ...

With the January 13 plebiscite which will decide the Saar Basin’s future less than two weeks off, ... Voters for the third alternative, which would favor handing over the Saar to France, ...

"The government of the Saar basin by a commission of the League of Nations is a very interesting experiment in international administration," said Professor Charles H. Haskins in a recent lecture ...

At least 2,000 additional police are needed in the Saar Basin, ... The inhabitants of the Saar are to choose whether they are to return to Germany, become a part of France, ...

Under its terms the long-disputed border region of Alsace-Lorraine, rich in coal, was handed to France. France was also given control of German coal fields in the Saar basin.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that France’s recognition of a Palestinian state would distance “peace, security and stability in our region”. Saar’s remarks were posted on X in ...