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...only exceptions made under the aforesaid order concerned those persons expelled for serious non-political crimes. The number of Germans now permitted to return to their homes was put at 210,000 and is additional to 60,000 Germans who were permitted to return to contiguous Rhineland territory under a separate order...
...report his entire fortune was left to his widow, Frau Klaire Stinnes, nee Wagenknecht; but the direction of his vast estate was placed in the hands of his two eldest sons, Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes and Hugo Hermann Stinnes, the former to be in charge of the Ruhr and Rhineland properties, the latter to oversee the family's interests in Berlin, run the shipping business and care for foreign properties...
Harden also gives interesting side-lights on Stinnes from the lips of the late Albert Ballin, famed head of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. After a meeting at which Harden had introduced Stinnes to Ballin, the latter said: "Stinnes is the greatest of the Rhineland captains of industry; but just as some children cannot leave a crumb of cake, and some men cannot leave a woman alone, so Stinnes cannot keep his hands off a single business undertaking even when it belongs to another...
House of Commons. Herbert H. Asquith and David Lloyd George, leaders of the Liberal Party, made a sortie against Premier MacDonald's foreign policy. The Premier's handling of Anglo-French relations was strongly attacked, Mr. Asquith expressing dissatisfaction with the Ruhr and Rhineland questions. Mr. MacDonald upheld his belief that the League of Nations was the best instrument to limit the existing menace to world peace...
...attributed to me. . . . I was called away from Paris to London . . . to take part in important discussions. . . . I found on my return to Paris that an agreement had been arrived at between President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau on two very important issues. One was the military occupation of the Rhineland. . . . To describe this agreement as a 'secret compact' between the late President Wilson and M. Clemenceau is ridiculous. President Wilson, I need hardly say, acted with perfect loyalty...