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Premier MacDonald accepted the plan as "an indivisible whole." The stressing of these words was taken as a reminder to France that Britain will not countenance any move which permits the retention of the Ruhr and that she will not be a party to any modifications aimed at imposing a scale of punishments upon Germany in case of default before she actually defaults...
...French Nationalist's election program that his Government is willing to make the necessary concessions to enable the Dawes plan to be put into effect. Certain diplomats professed to see in this statement the empty phrases of electioneering strategy. Positive indications that France will give up the Ruhr were absent and the question of French security against German aggression was a subject that was not seriously discussed...
...industrialists. Pending the definite acceptance of the Dawes recommendations, the Ruhr industrialists renewed for two months the accords established with the Allied Control Mission last Fall...
...Stabilization of currency and balancing of budget. France was expected to agree to the "economic evacuation" of the Ruhr, providing that the guarantees contained in the report of No. 1 Committee meet her requirements...
Replied the hard, harsh, bellicose von Seecht: "The ideas of peace are in themselves difficult of comprehension for a people so maltreated as the German nation, but when, after the experiences Germany has had in the invasion of the Ruhr, and at a time when France daily stamps on the Treaty of Versailles, a man devotes himself to the execution of this Treaty in the interests of France, I can only describe such action as the limit of self-abasement. Furthermore, I should like to remind you that in the event of any public discussion of the questions mentioned...