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...examine in a spirit of equity any serious proposals addressed to it directly by the German Government. Answering interpellations from the Left in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincaré remarked: "It is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation! [Laughter from the Radicals.] We went into the Ruhr to get reparations and for no other reason. We will leave the Ruhr when Germany pays, not before!" Germany. Chancellor Cuno has expressed Germany's willingness to negotiate with the French as soon as definite promises have been given that the French will evacuate the Ruhr. The German Nationalists...
Peace Offer. The cat is out of the bag in Rome! It appears that Herr Hugo Stinnes' real purpose in going to the capital of Italy a fortnight ago was to propose a basis for a Ruhr peace settlement. The attitude of Italy and Belgium to the Ruhr question, combined with a visit of the Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Jaspar, to Milan, where he conferred with Mussolini, make the diplomatic smoke screen fairly transparent. It is the most unlikely thing in the world that the Belgian statesman came expressly from Brussels to exchange nonsensical urbanities with the Italian premier...
...Answering a fairly general attack by the House on the Government's policy toward the Ruhr occupation, Stanley Baldwin, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking for the Premier, said: "The Government could have done nothing more than it has done, . . . but I believe that the moment may come when our services to the Allies and to Germany may be of immense value...
Herr Oswald Sprengler, the German historian whose book, Downfall of the Occident, was one of the sensations of the past few years, accuses France of carrying on Napoleon's ambitions: "When Napoleon founded the Grand Duchy of Berg in the Ruhr Basin and the Kingdom of Westphalia he observed to his brother-in-law that the Ruhr was the strategic road to the North Sea. This thought of Napoleon's . . . is gradually taking shape in Premier Poincaré's policy . . . it is only a short distance from the Ruhr to the North Sea. . . . France could seize...
...first debate of the Union was won by the Progressives, who upheld the affirmative in the question of the recognition of Soviet Russia. In the other two meetings, the Conservatives upheld the Jones Ship Subsidy Bill and the policy of France in the Ruhr, gaining the decision in both debates...