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...York World last week aptly summarized: "War guilt is primarily a political question: on it are supposed to depend the German obligation to pay reparations, the disarmament of Germany in a Europe which remains armed, the occupation of the Rhineland. and prohibition of the union of Germany and Austria, and the demarcation of the eastern frontiers. When these five questions have been finally settled. Article 231 will cease to have any political value, and the sentimental objection to it will prevail...
Besides her complaint on Minorities, Germany was urgently pressing the question: "When will the Allied Powers get out of the Rhineland?" Brought up in Council session, Minister Briand met it by playing for time. France cannot answer, he said, until she knows 'the views of Ramsay MacDonald, newly-elected British Prime Minister. He suggested that it be settled along with other details of the Young Reparations Plan at an International Conference proposed for July or August...
High over the Austrian and Swiss Alps last week drifted a mountainous white cloud. Slowly it flattened out until it covered most of Bavaria and the lower Rhineland, hung motionless in the air for three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after...
Germany too was cheered at the prospect of a Labor government in Britain. All of the more liberal aspects of Britain's foreign policy were inaugurated by the last MacDonald administration. German optimists foresaw speedy evacuation of the Rhineland, quick ratification of the Young Plan...
...Schacht also demanded political concessions, including the immediate evacuation of the Rhineland and the early return of the Saar Valley. This proposal was greeted with stony silence. Dr. Schacht retired once more to ponder...