Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Idle would be any suggestion that Great Man Raymond Poincaré has not made great mistakes, but his constructive achievements have been so great that history will excuse even his colossal blunder of trying to squeeze reparations out of Germany by sending French troops to occupy the Ruhr (TIME, March...
...occupation of the Ruhr, Deputy Blum's Socialism is mild, his attitude often conciliatory. By origin Deputy Blum is an Alsatian Jew. With famed French Socialist Jean Jaures he had an active part in the Dreyfus case...
Optimistic observers of the Paris conference refused to be depressed. It was pointed out that bristle-headed Dr. Vögler was an avowed Nationalist, that he had from the first refused to agree to any payments beyond 37 years, that he was directly responsible to the Ruhr industrialists, who were determined to make no concessions to the Creditor Powers. Optimists felt that Dr. Ludwig Kastl, the German delegate who succeeds Dr. Vögler, would be easier to deal with...
...Apropos seemed an editorial of last week in the Deutsche Bergwerks Zeitung of Düsseldorf, a paper generally considered the mouthpiece of one of the German delegates at Paris, Dr. Albert Voegler, Member of the Board of the Ruhr Steel Cartel...
...then British Foreign Secretary. Too little remembered is the fact that he was at least the grandfather of the Dawes Plan. As British Foreign Secretary (1919-24), he had officially denounced as "utterly illegal" the French at tempts to squeeze reparations out of Germany by occupying the Ruhr. As an alternative course he urged and finally persuaded the Allied Powers to convene the Committee of Experts which drafted the Dawes Plan. Two decades earlier he had been one of England's greatest Viceroys of India (1899-1905). His posthumous biography by the Earl of Ronaldshay was published last year...