Word: franco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic factors underlying the Franco-Belgian action are to be found more in the domestic conditions of the countries concerned rather than in the occupied region. The Ruhr mines are yielding comparatively little coal, and both France and Belgium are forced to import supplies at an enormous cost...
Both countries face a daily rising expenditure of about $100,000 for the direct cost of occupation. The Germans, too, are being forced to expend large credits on coal and food, but their hindering tactics are not so costly as the Franco-Belgian Ruhr administration...
...reparation from Germany or become bankrupt. Germany not only must pay, but can pay. A comparison of reparations after the war of 1870 with those after the Great War shows that although the total sum required from Germany is much greater than that paid by France after the Franco-Prussian war, the yearly payments made by France were larger than those made by Germany since the treaty of Versailles was signed. In this comparison we must also consider the fact that France had been invaded in the war of 1870, while German territory was untouched in the Great...
...main arguments in favor of France's present policy were briefly: Germany to the present time has made no honest effort to pay the reparations justly demanded, and has pursued a policy of passive resistance; that in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, France was forced to pay the entire amount of the indemnity demanded; finally, France is in urgent need of money and material to enable her to reconstruct what Germany has destroyed, and that by pursuing her policy of the occupation of the Ruhr Valley, France will either secure in material the equivalent of the reparations...
...hundred odd scholarship men coming back to America every year will be missionaries of France in the highest sense. It is safe to say that if each of these can interpret the spirit of the French people as well as the grand old man who leaves American shores today, Franco-American relations for the future are in safe channels...