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...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
...Premier Lloyd-George, on his first invasion of America since his period of office, has expressed himself favorably in regard to the American attitude towards the Ruhr problem. That is, he has strongly approved Secretary Hughes' plan for a committee of expert accountants to audit Germany's books. In doing this he has voiced the general American public opinion, and has called attention to a solution which has long lain neglected...
Lloyd-George, although at present a private individual, can still be taken as representative of a large liberal party in England. Newspaper headlines, still proclaim the possibility of his return to power, due to a deep public dissatisfaction with Premier Baldwin's lack of vigor in dealing with the Ruhr situation. And behind this opinion of the ex-premier stands the opinion of Washington as expressed by Secretary Hughes and President Coolidge. As Lloyd-George says: "the plan is not too late for consideration, and it is absolutely the best hope of the settlement of reparations...
...Oxford debaters will meet the Yale team tonight in Sprague Hall, New Haven, Conn., to argue "The Occupation of the Ruhr", the same question used Monday night when the Englishmen overwhelmed the University debating team in Symphony Hall. A novel feature of the debate is that each team will exchange one man. Of the Oxford team, one will be a member of the affirmative team and two of the negative and Yale will have one negative man from Oxford and two American affirmative speakers...
...question of French occupation of the Ruhr the English have become more and more condemnatory of France. Whether a dearth of Ruhr trade and flattened English pocket-books have given rise to this attitude is a nice point for speculative minds. At any rate, that this attitude now exists ins an establish of fact, especially since Lord Curzon's vigorous message on the subject sent to Premier Poincare a few weeks ago. America, though assuming the pose of the onlooker with his feet well out of all dust and dirt, is perhaps inclined to favor the French action. Therefore each...