SEVERAL ARRESTS
FRENCH AUTONOMISTS
PLOTTING SUSPECTED
STRASBOURG, February 8.
The leader of the Alsatian autonomists, Dr. Karl Roos, and several of his followers have been arrested. All are suspected of plotting against the State as the result of the discovery of compromising documents in their homes.
Dr. Roos was, acquitted of a similar charge in 1928. * He later preached the Nazi gospel and supported the Munich Agreement as a triumph for German nationalism, declaring that France was a small nation without glory.
When Alsace returned to France in 1918, Dr. Roos carried on a private school at Strasbourg until 1924, in which year he accepted the post of education adviser to the French mining administration in the Saar. However, he resigned in the spring of 1926, as he objected to the methods of the French authorities. He then became active in thevAlsatian autonomist movement, being one 'of the founders of the "Heimatbund," which demands an Alsatian Legislature.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 13
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