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Victory for either side in the Euhr struggle is a myth. It has cost Germany billions of paper marks, a number of killed, many wounded, many prisoners. Moreover, it has crippled the financial and economic life of the Reich, undermined political institutions and caused great suffering among the people. The cost to France has also been great. Millions of francs have been expended, lives lost. The gain in coal, etc., has been out of all proportion to the cost or to what France might have got out of the Ruhr by pursuing different tactics...
...German Government has long warned the French that if they continued to occupy the Ruhr the Reich would become a prey to Bolshevism. The French Government always looked upon such an eventuality as a bugaboo. The German Government also said that they could not halt passive resistance, because public opinion was too strong. The French said: "Stop resisting before talking." The German Government ordered passive resistance to stop and in the place of Bolshevism there have arisen two dictators, one for Bavaria and the other for the Reich...
...over a thousand years later, the idea of a Middle Kingdom has been renewed. However much the Berlin government may maintain the doctrine that not one foot of the Reich will under any condition be coded to the foe and that the astivities of the Separatists are merely treasonable outbursts fostered by the French, it is an undeniable fact that the Separatist movement is growing. Never emotionally or intellectually akin to the Prussian, the Rhinelander is now further impelled toward "separatism" by the chance of freeing himself from a government which he feels has misunderstood his needs and from...
...indefatigable Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance for the Reich, outlined a grand scheme of radical finance reform, which made provision for three different currencies...
Nichtswerthpapiermark, meaning worthless paper mark, which continued as legal tender at .00000060 cents to the mark, or 166,666,666 marks to the dollar. It seemed certain that Herr Hilferding's bill would be passed by the Reich...