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...debaters declare, however, that they are not in the least dismayed by having their subject snatched away. They point out that the Ruhr affair was only one aspect of the far greater problem of reparations. In the latter field they expect to find much food for argument...
Foreign dispatches in yesterday mornings papers gave a new twist to the plans now under way for the debate with the Oxford team in Symphony Hall on October 8. Although later developments may bring the Ruhr question down from the shelf again, it is considered doubtful whether this topic can now be regarded as anything more than history...
Ever since Herr Stresemann undertook the burdens of the German Chancellor ship there has been a certain return of confidence in other countries that the Ruhr conundrum would be solved. For the Chancellor has taken a strong tone toward the dominant industrial kings of Germany and an attitude of discretion rather than blustering valor toward the Allies. The culmination of this came yesterday with his announcement that Germany must and would renounce without conditions its policy of passive resistance to the French occupation...
...hardly a matter of guess-work. Though not to the same extent France as well as Germany has suffered by the occupation. Now that victory has come at last she is hardly likely to soften the rigor of her demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant puzzle. Lord Our son recently issued his strong pronunciamento calling in question the legality of France's move into the Ruhr. Then last week Premier Baldwin had a conference...
...Symphony Hall on or about October 8 will be picked from the squad chosen tonight by the coaches, Mr. B. H. Kuhns and Mr. C. H. Weldon Jr. Each candidate will be asked to make a five-minute speech either supporting or condemning the French policy in the Ruhr which has been chosen as the subject of the debate...