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More than two years have rolled by since the French stirred the world to uneasiness by marching into the rich Ruhr territory to collect by armed force the reparations which Germany failed voluntarily...
...subsequent adoption of the Experts' Plan (for the payment of reparations) was performed in London on Aug. 15 of last year (TIME, Aug. 18). Under pressure from all sides, the then Premier Edouard Herriot of France promised, in the name of his country, to evacuate all Ruhr territory to a line running between Oberhausen, Mülheim, Kettwig within one year...
...reviews the past ten years, beginning with the War. In swift panorama, the spirit of a whole decade lives again, stained not with the anxious excitement of that time, but with a critical pessimism merited by post-War events : Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, scores of conferences, the Ruhr -- no sign of progress in the heart of mankind; but, the League of Nations, the World Court, codification of international law, etc. . . . ten years after, there is the beginning, at last, of a world opinion rising up against the war-makers...
...industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...
...yells, he ably defended the Government's action, declared that the money had been disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...