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...mainly internationalists and pacifists, has been the unwise treatment of that republic by the former enemies, and above all by France and Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without...
...European diplomacy, France strives only for security; Germany aggressively bargains for business concessions. The factories of the recovered Ruhr have again started that production which will carry the country back to prosperity. In practical fashion the Germans have abandaned revenge for business. And through the government buildings of Berlin echoes sardonic laughter...
...London Times erupted into exclamations for once: "No more invasions of Belgium! No more devastation of French territory! No new occupation of the Ruhr! No new attempts to foster separatist movements in the Rhineland! It seems almost incredible we should have escaped from that series of nightmares, yet this solemn pledge intends nothing less. The spectre that held the peoples of France, Belgium and Germany in perpetual fear has been exorcised, at any rate for a period in which the will of the present generation may operate...
...announced last week that the Mannesmann brothers (German industrial magnates in the Ruhr) had sold their Moroccan properties. The Mannesmanns, Reinhard and Max, now men in their late 60's, eminent industrial metallurgists, many years ago bought up many valuable properties from Moroccan sheiks. These properties were involved in the famous Agadir incident which brought the erstwhile Kaiser down to Morocco with diplomatic complications several decades ago. During the war the Mannesmann properties in French Morocco were confiscated. Now they have sold their property in the Spanish zone...
Many of the Stinnes concerns are now being sold, owing to industrial depression following the Ruhr occupation and the operation of the Experts' Plan, and more particularly to quarrels between the two Stinnes sons (TIME, June 29) and the confusion in which their sire left his enormous and varied holdings...