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...Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...
...through the last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
Alfred Krupp was the particular protégé of Bismarck and Wilhelm I. The Franco-Prussian War advertised his products and the Krupp firm became the greatest manufacturer of armaments in the world. Alfred Krupp retired to his castle in the Ruhr Valley in quivering hypochondria, went to bed in a room overlooking the stables, for he was always stimulated by the smell of horses. His son Fritz, while the German Navy grew like a house afire and the family firm got most of the armor plate orders, went to Capri, founded a mock religious order with gold insignia...
...proposals on the grounds that they were based on the inferiority of a Germany without sovereignty over its own territory. It then launched into a recapitulation of 1914-18, touching off the Allies' hamstringing of Woodrow Wilson's famed Fourteen Points, the Allied occupation of the German Ruhr and the Franco-Soviet Pact of this year. The emotional, if not the legal, argument of this last was that if a man who has humored one neighbor by keeping his dog in the house finds that that neighbor has agreed with the neighbor on the other side to keep...
...Ruhr occupation was primarily due to the fear of France regarding her security; the Japanese aggression against China would probably never have been attempted had Japan not believed, and rightly, that our absence from the League made sanctions impossible. Mussolini in all likelihood would not have planned his adventure in Africa had he thought the League could function in a divided world...