Word: franco-belgian
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Rhineland, M. Poincaré said that his Government would not enter into any discussion on the question of restricting the powers of the Franco-Belgian authorities and the Interallied High Commission, which together control the Ruhr and Rhineland...
This attitude was aggravated by the recent Franco-Belgian agreement with the German industrialists (TIME, Dec. 3), which was said to constitute a threat to Britain. The line of argument which Britain will adopt is that "the occupation of the Ruhr is illegal and cannot be justified"; that a settlement with the German industrialists was agreed to by them under duress and is 'without effect...
With regard to the Franco-Belgian agreement with the German industrialists, the German Government said, in a letter to the Reparations Commission, that as the Ruhr occupation is illegal, it could not recognize the agreement. The tenor of the German argument was that all deliveries in fuel extracted from the Ruhr and Rhineland must be credited to the Reich's reparation account and not to payment of the occupation expenses...
...conditions in the Ruhr. M. Poincare, as Premier of France and spokesman for Belgium, rebuffed the German request by stating that all the Germans had to do was to cease passive resistance (which was reported to be still in existence) and to discuss with General Degoutte, Generalissimo of the Franco-Belgian occupational forces, any local difficulties...
...offered the French Government mortgages on public and private property, which means that the Allies will be assured of a fixed sum of money on account of reparations as well as security. Herr Gustav Stresemann is expected to call off passive resistance as soon as his Government has received Franco-Belgian assurances that Germany will be given complete control in the Ruhr and that German sovereignty will be allowed to reassert itself in the Rhineland...