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When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...
...question debated in 1922 was the proposed entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. The University won on the negative of this question, by an audience vote of 1614 to 1000. In 1923 the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley, involving the whole question of reparations payments by Germany, was debated, and Oxford won, 1748 to 519, on its opposition to the French action...
More Oil. Scientists have been agreed that nature long since ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed...
...poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week at the War-ravaged town of Luneville, was indiscreet to the point of eccentricity; but apparently...
...short, he became the first statesman in Europe to chairman the drafting of a negotiated agreement with post-War Germany. This was the London Settlement of Aug. 14, 1924, on the basis of which the Dawes Plan went into effect and France abandoned her ruthless occupation of the Ruhr...