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...German Government officially ordered passive resistance to cease in the Ruhr, thus sweeping aside the primary French objection to a conference on the gigantic problem of reparations. How far the order from Berlin will be observed by the workers in the Ruhr is a question for the future. In the meantime Chancellor Stresemann decided to resume deliveries in kind to the Allies. These deliveries were discontinued by Chancellor Cuno after the French occupation of the Ruhr...
Premier Poincare is not to be fooled. Germany's renunciation of passive resistance, her apparent willingness to come to terms with the French--these indices of a surrender which many people looked at as the final solution of the Ruhr dispute are not for a moment "taking in" the Premier of France. In his last Sunday's "sermon" the Premier announced his stand to an anxious world. Bristling with the most significant facts and couched in the brilliant language of the trained statesman they summarize and justify the stand which M. Poincare has so inflexibly upheld...
Fundamentally the Ruhr struggle, which has not ended with the cessation of "passive resistance", is being waged to prove the truth or falsity of a belief, namely that Germany is able but unwilling to pay the reparations which she promised to pay in signing the Versailles Treaty and subsequent agreements. Next Monday night the question of the Ruhr occupation is being argued by the University and Oxford teams. There is no better source of information on the orthodox French view of the problem than the "weekly meditations" of the brilliant French Premier, probably the most powerful statesman whom the twentieth...
...lasting peace than a separate state, sure to invite the envy of one if not both of its great neighbors. Perhaps after all the two countries will be forced to the solution which at the moment seems the most unlikely-an economic union based on coal in the Ruhr and iron in Lorraine, a union gradually cemented into firm understanding and industrial alliance. At least such a plan would offer the hope of lasting peace. And history has before this played tricks as queer...
Macveagh will open the case for the Crimson in defense of the French action in the Ruhr. The University is upholding the negative of the question "Resolved: That this house condemns the French action in occupying the Ruhr...