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...next most important agendum was the division of reparations so far received, a matter complicated by profits derived from the Ruhr occupation, seizures made, deliveries in kind received...
Another factor which doubtless influenced the Allies was that, according to the London Agreement (which settled the means and ways of putting the Experts' Plan into operation), the Ruhr area is not to be evacuated until Aug. 30, 1925. Withdrawal of British troops, which hold the Cologne bridgehead, would isolate France, who would then be obliged to reoccupy the,area...
...this indus- trial potentate hails from Frankfort, home of the Rothschilds. Unlike the dead "King of Coke," the "King of the Borse" is a Jew; his great predecessor in wealth was a Lutheran. Unlike the bluff, hard, scowling Stinnes, the Jew is suave, handsome, crafty. Unlike the once omnipotent Ruhr industrialist, who inherited his father's fortune, the newcomer began with the modest sum of 15,000 marks and made his enormous fortune unaided. But the latter aims to be like Stinnes; he is copying the methods of Stinnes; and, while he is not so rich, so powerful...
...once started a long toboggan which ended at $3.18 on Feb. 4, 1920. In the next two years the pound twice reached $4.00 and over only to fall back again. In 1922, a genuine advance began that ended at $4.72 in February, 1923. The invasion of the Ruhr, British flight of capital and fear of the Labor Party brought sterling down to $4.20 again last January. Since that time, adoption of the Experts' Plan and the ousting of the Labor ministry has led to a remarkable advance to $4.73½- a new high level...
...Libby declared that hatred and armaments are again piling up throughout the world. He referred to the feeling of the Germans which, he said, has turned from a hatred of all war to a more terrible hatred of the French people, since the latter nation invaded the Ruhr. He warned against the "Preparedness for Peace" propaganda, which he claims is being spread throughout the United States by the military authorities...