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That the situation in the Ruhr is the greatest misfortune that has ever befallen Europe is the conviction of Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard '93, president and owner of the "Nation", according to an interview given recently to a CRIMSON reporter...
...Villard based his statements on a consideration of the condition of the French people and referred only indirectly to the Germans, declaring that the invasion of the Ruhr was a crime against the French people themselves...
...according to M. Poincare, was to be merely a mission of technical engineers, with a few soldiers'. Next it was to be occupation of mines and industrial districts; then it was to be operation of the mines and plants; next complete occupation and the entire cutting off of the Ruhr; then the operation of all the railroads temporarily, next their indefinite occupation. On February 9 the 'New York. Times' dispatch read: 'Poincare Says Ruhr Won't Be Exploited', but since March 1 it has been the universal admission that the Ruhr will be exploited...
...Entente, and will shortly lead, unless all signs fail, to action by the British against the French their chief law officers have declared the action of the French a violation of the Treaty of Versailles and their newspapers are now united in opposition to the policy in the Ruhr--is surely the supreme of stupidity, the very reverse of enlightened and intelligent statesmanship. France's action has been denounced in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Holland, as well as by the International Trade Union Congress, the most powerful labor organization in the world. Sir Phillip Gibbs says: 'France has produced undying...
...down, before Poincare and say: 'Yes, this is the right and Christian way to compel the payment of the debt'. We who hold to our faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ are asked to believe that any sums of money which may be pressed out of the Ruhr are to be sanctified and holy, that the coal mined by a half-starved and half-distracted miner at the point of a bayonet will bring peace, contentment, and happiness to some poor, much-to-be pitied inhabitant of the desolated districts of France. It will do nothing of the kind...