Word: ruhr
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...settle who is and who is not to blame for the great ruction in the Ruhr is a task too great for the average man. And yet the average man is likely to settle it very nicely in his own mind on the second-hand information and bias of his particular daily newspaper. For one who has not been able to travel abroad and study the problems at first hand, this is practically his only means of reaching a conclusion. There is one other way--to gather first hand information from the talk of one who has been able...
...impressed with the conduct of the French troops," said Mr.A.G. Alley '01 to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Mr. Alley, who has recently made a trip through Germany studying the conditions of the country, is to speak at the Union tomorrow evening on "The Fight for the Rhine, Ruhr, and Sahr" at a meeting held under the auspices of the Harvard Branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan League, Mr. Alley, who is a member of the Boston branch of the Non-Partisan League, is planning to give lectures throughout New England this winter on subjects connected with...
...Joseph H. Scattergood '97, treasurer of Haverford College since 1916, will discuss "The Reparations Deadlock" after luncheon at 1.15 o'clock at the Liberal Club today. This is Mr. Scattergood's second appearance at the Club inasmuch as he spoke there last spring on "The Ruhr...
...exaggerated, and the foregoing are no exception to the fact. Undoubtedly Europe is well- covered, but the slogan of foreign correspondents seems to be: "What does the American public want ?" These fact-collectors are governed accordingly. If any big movement takes place, such as the French occupation of the Ruhr, the foreign correspondents are less concerned with fact-gathering than they are with construing the importance and probable effect of what occurs. The function of a correspondent is to write a factual narrative of events coupled with pertinent comment from others; in no sense should his despatches infringe...
...example, not long ago Manhattan journals printed authoritatively that Germany had ceased passive resistance in the Ruhr. Actually no such thing had occurred and did not occur until a fortnight later. Another journal recently received a despatch from its foreign correspondent to the effect that Queen Zita was living near Vienna. The truth was that she had not budged from Spain...