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Before a crowded Reichstag Chancellor Cuno, describing himself as " an honest merchant," made a speech, which, while it lacked the fire and brimstone of oratorical genius, was after all more a categorical denunciation of French "violence" in the Ruhr than an attempt to define German policy. He claimed that the French were acting against the Versailles Treaty devised by the other Powers; that the Rhineland High Commission had sold itself without restriction to the French. He said that he doubted whether France came into the Ruhr for reparations and that her action made it impossible for Germany to estimate...
Herr Gessler, Minister of Defense, made a speech to the Reichstag in which he said: " Will a nation of sixty millions remain impassive while our brothers in the Ruhr are being strangled by white and black Frenchmen? Our defence army of 100,000 may not accomplish much, but I have no doubt that a well-organized guerrilla war on our own soil would soon end with the enemy's destruction...
...Reichstag says that it has paid the Allies no less than 46,600,000,000 gold marks in reparations since November, 1918, until September of last year...
...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...
Chancellor Wirth has come before the Reichstag with plain-spoken declarations that have the air of an ultimatum. Germany, he says must have a complete moratorium for the coming year, and a foreign loan as well if she is to being to meet her obligations for 1922. As to the recent action of the Allied Reparations Committee, which has demanded additional taxes of sixty billion marks and Allied control of German finances, he declares arbitrarily that no government will be formed to meet those conditions. The Chancellor's speech was greeted in the Reichstag with cheers...