Word: reichstagers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 to the brim, and indignation has come to the boiling point. Everywhere there is sentiment for forcible action-and to avoid responsibility the Government should act, thereby placing the consequences squarely upon the French and Belgians...
...need intercepts the vision, no one can tell what is on the other side. Resistance. The effect of increasing the military forces in the Ruhr by 20,000 men and tightening their control in the occupied area is leading the Germans from passive to desperate resistance. Last week the Reichstag voted a credit of 400,000,000,000 marks to the German Coal Syndicate to strengthen resistance in the Ruhr. The German resistance is so strong now that the French have been obliged to give more attention to running the railways than to getting coal from the pitheads...
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...