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...Foreign Minister Briand reported upon his tentative negotiations with Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich at Thoiry (TIME, Sept. 27). M. Briand, apostle of international concord, secured from M. Poincare, exponent of militant French nationalism, acceptance in principle of the proposed Franco-German compromise: 1) France to evacuate the Rhineland in 1927, return the Saar to Germany in 1928, and withdraw all opposition to the purchase by Germany from Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy; 2) Germany to transfer to France for these concessions four billion francs ($100,000,000) to be realized by the sale to private investors of German...
...participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped from Germany by her admission into the League (TIME, Sept. 20). Thus he won a measure of approbation from German Nationalists...
Argumentative Murder. At Germersheim in the Rhineland a group of German civilians were drawn into a brawl with French officers as a result of the revival of War guilt talk last week. One Lieutenant Roucier. shot and killed one Herr Emil Mueller by way of thrusting home the assertion that Raymond Poincare did not start the World...
...Lesser U. S. coal-iron districts are in Colorado, Tennessee and Alabama. tCompared to Rhineland iron ore production, that of Great Britain is about three-tenths, of Sweden (important because smelted by low-cost electric furnaces) one-sixth, Spain one-ninth, Czechoslovakia, China, India and Algeria, each one-thirty-eighth...
Rumors naturally fled about that M. Briand and Herr Stresemann had been dickering over the complete evacuation of the Rhineland. Well plied with questions as to whether this was the case, M. Briand concealed his thoughts loquaciously...