Word: cuno
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Lord Curzon's speech in London a little more than a week ago advising Germany to make an offer to the French and Belgians has evidently had some effect in Germany. Chancellor Cuno announced that he is about to take an important step in connection with the reparations problem...
...leave London unless a plan having his approval as head of the Government had already been decided. The inference is that the Curzon speech was arranged by the Cabinet with the approval of the German Government. Curzon makes the gesture, Bonar Law travels happily away in search of health, Cuno confers with the industrialists and prepares his reparations offer...
...matter of fact, the political atmosphere in Britain, Paris and! Berlin is none too healthy for the Governments in power. Pressure is being brought to bear on Bonar Law, Poincaré and Cuno, mainly on account of Ruhr issues, by their political opponents. If the fall of these Governments is effected it would do much to clear the air and bring the Allies and Germany together in at much needed reparations conference...
...Left in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincaré remarked: "It is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation! [Laughter from the Radicals.] We went into the Ruhr to get reparations and for no other reason. We will leave the Ruhr when Germany pays, not before!" Germany. Chancellor Cuno has expressed Germany's willingness to negotiate with the French as soon as definite promises have been given that the French will evacuate the Ruhr. The German Nationalists (royalists) have tried to force the Reichstag into an aggressive policy by issuing an ultimatum. "Our cup of humiliation is full...
...Magnates. The German industrialists are insuring themselves against the fall of the Cuno Government-which, it is now believed, would pave the way to negotiations with the French-by a policy of reconciliation with all parties favoring an immediate Ruhr settlement. This ingenuous policy would, of course, leave a considerable margin of power in the hands of the magnates when the settlement terms are discussed...