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...those who have felt that France entered the Ruhr in part at least because of her desire for security, the idea of a separate state will appeal at first sight as perhaps a good substitute for Marshal Foch's famous "left bank of the Rhine." To those, on the other hand, who see in the occupation merely the desire to enforce Reparation payments, the idea will suggest the possibility of guaranteeing Franco-German peace on the basis of a buffer and neutral state. But multiplication of small states-buffer or neutral-has never in the past served the cause...
...telegram received late yesterday from the Oxford team revised the wording of the resolution for the University-Oxford debate in Symphony Hall next Monday night. The resolution now reads "Resolved: That this house condemns the French action in occupying the Ruhr." This is merely a conciser wording of the former resolution...
Premiers Baldwin of Britain and Poincaré of France met in conclave at Paris. It was reported that they had not decided upon any definite solution of the Ruhr problem but that they "had agreed upon a common policy." As a result the Entente Cordiale is said to be closer than it has been for months. The Allies wait for the official end of passive resistance, which Chancellor Stresemann was reported to have "announced." following a five-hour conference with 300 representative spokesmen from the Ruhr and Rhineland at which it was "unanimously agreed that further opposition was futile...
...page book is written with characteristic Lloyd Georgian vigor and is full of sonorous metaphor. The Ruhr gets attention. Says he: "If Poincaré is out for reparation, his policy will inevitably fail in comparison with that which he so rashly threw over; but if he is out for trouble it has been a great success and in the future it will be an even greater triumph for his statesmanship. The permanent garrison in the Ruhr has possibilities of mischief which it does not require any special vision to foresee...
...individual is the unit of society. His political opinions are free of the stamp of the propaganda factory. He believes that business men should be given charge of international relations. He contends that M. Poincaré, whom he does not believe an imperialist, made a mistake in invading the Ruhr, and asserts that a customs frontier along the already occupied Rhineland would have secured reparations cash without arousing the nationalist feelings of Germany; that, for all French protestations, France is in a far more stable economic condition than England, despite the fiscal disparity...