Word: ruhr
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...children seeking work, and I may have to erect a barricade around my place to keep out the people who hope to get employment-and food-in a factory of this kind." The German Government legalized by special decree French and Belgian francs in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was said that this step was taken in order to embroil the French and Belgian francs in the debacle of the mark. Perhaps it was a sincere effort to lighten the task of German printing presses which, in the space of two weeks, printed 308 quadrillions of paper marks...
...details were available, nothing definite could be said either for or against the pact. The advantages for France if she has succeeded in connecting the Czecho-Slovak metallurgical industry, in which she owns half the capital, with the French iron and steel industry, plus the Ruhr coal, are that it completes France's control of the industry on the continent and places France in a stronger position than ever...
...commissions will probably start functioning during the second week of January. Although surface activity was hindered by the approach of Christmas, the various interested Governments were active. It was stated that the French, having consolidated their successful occupation of the Ruhr, were turning their attention to Britain and Italy, both of whom have repeatedly stressed their disapproval of France's Ruhr policy. In an effort to mollify their opposition, it was reported that France was preparing to remove all the objectionable points in her policy in order to be in a position to confront those Allies with a fait...
Rhineland, M. Poincaré said that his Government would not enter into any discussion on the question of restricting the powers of the Franco-Belgian authorities and the Interallied High Commission, which together control the Ruhr and Rhineland...
Foreign Minister Stresemann, in a speech in Berlin, said: "We are the sick limb of the European body politic." He mentioned a long list of indignities from which Germany had been forced to suffer and stated that Germany had never recognized and would never recognize the legality of the Ruhr occupation...