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Died. General Charles Jacquemot, commander of the French Army which occupied the Ruhr in 1923, member of the Higher Council of War; of burns received when he was struck by lightning during maneuvers in the Maritime Alps; near Nice...
Exactly opposite was the conduct of 1,400 Rhine & Ruhr industrialists meeting at Düsseldorf. appalled by the new income and other taxes they will have to pay. Their idea: As a quasi-dictator Dr. Bruning must be harder on rich men than he would need to be as an out-and-out Mussolini. Acting on this idea the 1,400 rich men voted a resolution urging Dr. Bruning to tear off the mask, proclaim himself what he almost is: Dictator...
...shot through the throat. After a year and a half in the hospital he was discharged as unfit for further service. He lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet Hans Carossa's 50th birthday...
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...