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...year ago, the French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in violation of the Versailles Treaty. A chain of great suffering and tribulation has been laid on the population of the old and newly occupied territories since that...
...appeal to all those in the world who have still preserved their human feelings and respect for international law to work toward the end that legal conditions be restored in the Ruhr and Rhineland, and that, above all, the innocent Germans suffering in prisons be returned to their families and that the exiled be permitted to return home...
...Rhine and Ruhr are German and must remain German. Long live a united and indivisible Germany...
...spite of the verbosity of experts, it is too early to appraise the significance of the Ruhr occupation in its entirety, because the discussions of today were but the events of yesterday. Propaganda in myriad forms and from myriad sources has hypertrophied the entire situation. The facts relevant to the case at present are that France and Belgium went into the Ruhr to get reparations that they could not obtain voluntarily from Germany. Germany claimed that the step was illegal. Passive resistance was begun immediately by Germany and lasted throughout the Spring, the Summer and the best part...
France. It can be fairly asserted, that the actuating motive which drove the French into the Ruhr was fear that the Germans would be able to turn their military defeat into an economic victory. Everything pointed to this end. Germany agreed (under duress) to pay reparations. She paid a fractional part of the sum demanded. Her industries were intact; those of France had been destroyed. The industrial revival in Germany kept pace with the fall of the mark, until the Ruhr occupation put an end to it. The manufactured goods of a mark-infested Germany were poured en masse into...