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General Allen was commander-in-chief of the American army of occupation in the Rhineland. It is true that Mr. Alley was a second Heutenant on special duty during the war, but on the whole his attitude is that of the civilian and student. He spent much of his time in Europe before the war, and since, has been there twice his last trip being made last summer...
...France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even by the Wilhelmstrasse, which seems largely powerless in the force of events; it is being determined by Munich and Dresden and the cities in the Ruhr and the Rhineland...
...Rhineland, as all over Germany, the people are suffering from nine years of famine. In addition they have been subjected to a brutal military occupation, whereby the Rhineland has been completely isolated from Germany as a whole. The civil government, contrary to the stipulations of the Treaty, has been practically taken over by the French army of occupation, travel and the interchange of news has been forbidden. Physically and intellectually the Rhinelanders have been cut off from the rest of Germany; thousands have been expelled...
...Then, having destroyed the peace and prosperity of the Rhinelanders," he said, "the French have dangled before the un- happy people the prospect that an independent Republic of Rhineland would end their miseries,--that it would free them from the French Military Occupation and give them once more 'peace, work and bread...
...Poincare's policy in attempting to separate the Rhineland could only be a lasting success were the French able to eliminate the Germans as factors in political and economic life, and reduce them to the level of bondsmen. So far they have seemed successful. But German love of the country will not tolerate that forever. Poincare's policy, if successful, can only have the effect of casting Europe into new struggles and predicaments...