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...opportunity of contrasting the soldier and civilian reaction to the Franco-German controversy in the Ruhr will be given to every Union member next month for Major General Henry T. Allen will speak at the Union November 2 on "Europe as I Saw It," and Mr. A. G. Alley '01 probably November 20 on "The Battle for the Ruhr, the Rhine, and the Saar...
...endeavors to avert abject cessation of passive resistance in the Ruhr, there was one concession that Chancellor Stresemann always refused to make; there could be, he declared, no surrender of a foot of German territory. Speaking a few weeks ago at Marseilles, former Premier Briand, M. Poincare's immediate predecessor, declared that in the whole Franco-German problem, the question of security for France came first and the question of Reparations second. Relinquishing his position as a moderate critic of the government, he stated that under present conditions there could be only support for those at the head...
...further from France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even by the Wilhelmstrasse, which seems largely powerless in the force of events; it is being determined by Munich and Dresden and the cities in the Ruhr and the Rhineland...
Meanwhile the French conversed with Herr Hugo Stinnes (" Master of Coke") and other industrialists concerning resumption of deliveries from the Ruhr. These discussions had the effect of recognizing Herr Stinnes as " Master of Germany " to the complete exclusion of the German Government. No agreement of note was reached with the German industrialists and the discussions were broken off. An agreement was reached, however, with the German Miners' Union and the men were reported returning to work. France declared that all evidences of military occupation would be removed as soon as normal economic conditions obtained in the Ruhr valley...
...Resolved: That this house disapproves the French occupation of the Ruhr...