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...Scattergood '97, who has recently been touring France and Germany to view the political situation, gave an informal talk yesterday noon at a luncheon at the Liberal Club on "The Political Situation in the Ruhr", in which he showed the seriousness of the situation for the whole world, and outlined the nature of the passive resistance...
...population who merely stand around with folded arms and calmly watch the movements of the aggressors. Naturally the troops cannot fire on such a gathering, and they are also unsuccessful in getting work out of the Germans. The French are spending 500,000,000 francs a month in the Ruhr, or the equivalent of a million dollars a day, and at present they have next to nothing to show for their work. They are taking from the Ruhr but one per cent of the amount which the Germans delivered in an equal length of time in 1922, for besides...
...clock today at a luncheon given by the Liberal Club, Mr. J. H. Scattergood will talk on "The Political Situation in the Ruhr". Mr. Scattergood has recently returned from the Ruhr district, where he was a member of the Friends' Service Committee, in which capacity he investigated conditions with a view of making possible American assistance to the Ruhr population. Mr. Scattergood was also in the first commission to go to Europe for the purpose of giving aid to refugees...
Since the Ruhr invasion took place there have been many voices raised against the British and their policy of " good-humored inactivity." In some cases complete separation of the two countries was advocated. There have, however, always been Entente friends to remind the more recalcitrant spirits that the preservation of Franco-British friendship is a stern necessity...
French premiers. One rushes into relativity as courageously as another occupies the Ruhr...