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After almost a year's struggle in the Ruhr, France and Belgium seem to have vindicated their occupation by securing a promise from the German industrialists to make reparation deliveries to the Allies. Actually, however, the French have received nothing but a promise, and, although reparations are in sight, there are many things within the comparatively quiescent political orbits of Europe that may balk the French in realizing these German promises...
This agreement affects 80% of the Ruhr industries, and practically the whole of the remaining 20% has already been settled under agreements with Herr Wolff and Baron Krupp von Bohlen...
Meanwhile the Reparations Com-mission in Paris heard the Germans explain why they could not pay reparations. Herr Fischer, heading the German delegation, stated that the Ruhr occupation was illegal and so long as France occupied that territory so long would it be before Germany could pay reparations...
...next wriggle in the reparations tangle was when Germany was reported to have " repudiated the Treaty of Versailles so long as the French and Belgians occupy the Ruhr." This meant that payment of every kind of reparations would cease. The report was previous; but is considered likely to be restated officially. The ground upon which Germany was said to have based its alleged attitude toward the Treaty is that the Treaty has already been nullified by the Ruhr occupation, which Germany holds is illegal. If such a step were taken it was considered that France would be obliged to repudiate...
...Thyssen, Klöcckner, Fickler, Rausch, Hubert) for control of factories and mines, and thus secure reparations to cover the cost of reconstruction in the devastated areas. These negotiations, however, fell through principally because Chancellor Stresemann, exercising pressure upon the industrialists, declined to depart from his standpoint that the Ruhr occupation is illegal and that whatever the French have seized from that territory must be placed to the credit of reparations- as there could be no question of paying France and Belgium for an illegal occupation. When the Chancellor's letter was shown to Colonel Georges, acting for General...