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...Government in a final effort to extricate the country from its terrifying financial and economic situation. Dr. von Hoesch, German Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, delivered a note to Premier Poincaré of France asking for the institution of direct negotiations between the two countries on the Ruhr and Rhineland territories...
...Poincaré replied that there was now no objection to negotiating directly with the German Government, but that there could be no discussion of any subject which directly or indirectly implied revision of the Treaty of Versailles. As regards the Ruhr...
...consider the means of balancing Germany's budget and of stabilizing her currency. Unfortunately this fact touches the outskirts of the problem. The German nation, to all intents and purposes, is in a state of bankruptcy. The proposed plan of receivership can accomplish little as long as the Ruhr, the great factory center of the whole nation, is sewed up in the hands of the French, and every bit of capital which the weak German government can tax out of its people must be handed over to France for reparations. The crux of the whole matter is the impossible size...
...Alley '01, who spoke at the Union on November 14 on "The fight for the Rhine, Ruhr, and Saar", has con to introduce Judge Clarke...
With regard to the Franco-Belgian agreement with the German industrialists, the German Government said, in a letter to the Reparations Commission, that as the Ruhr occupation is illegal, it could not recognize the agreement. The tenor of the German argument was that all deliveries in fuel extracted from the Ruhr and Rhineland must be credited to the Reich's reparation account and not to payment of the occupation expenses...