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...strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that it occasioned only little surprise when a recent French Yellow Book was filled with quotations from Mr. Lloyd-George, who was busy at the time of publication in most unmeasured denunciation of France...
...Stresemann Government ordered the German population in the Ruhr and Rhineland to cease passive resistance against the Franco-Belgian occupation...
Thus Germany appeared to admit that she was beaten in the Ruhr fight. In effect, however, nothing of the sort occurred. Reports indicated that Chancellor Stresemann made the cessation of passive resistance " a gesture " to satisfy French honor and to avoid prolonging the struggle indefinitely. An Allied conference, to which Germany will be invited, will be called in the near future...
Informed circles have it that the German renunciation is in effect a compromise. France and Belgium are expected to withdraw their military forces from the Ruhr and to permit the Germans to exercise complete control. France, Belgium and Germany lost heavily in the Ruhr occupation; either side can be said to have won, except by closing a most disastrous episode in the history of Europe...
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist-actor: "Interviewed, said I: 'The atmosphere of New York is perfectly delightful . . . You can have no idea of the terrific mental pressure which exists in Europe today. In London we hear nothing but the Ruhr, morning, noon and night. In the theatre lobby we talk of reparations. And over our bacon and eggs in the morning we wrangle...