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...France has been unable to carry out her threat of commandeering the surface coal massed at the pit-heads, owing to the shortage of labor. She has, however, stated that every effort will be made to obtain foreign labor with which to move the coal and coke in the Ruhr...
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...Lloyd George assumed a tone of despondency. Speaking at a luncheon given in his honor by the National Liberals in the House of Commons, he remarked: "I view the future with despair." He denounced the Bonar Law Government in strong terms and prophesied that their inanimate policy regarding the Ruhr would soon bring about their fall. "The Government is rapidly losing prestige," said he. "Its supporters are discouraged." He also urged the coalition of the Liberal parties (his own and Asquith's) as necessary to fight revolutionary labor...
...House Sir John Simon (Asquith liberal) asked "whether happy acquiescence is still to be the keynote of British policy? " Mr. Asquith and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, former Minister of Education, also criticized the Government's policy toward the Ruhr. Mr. Bonar Law did not reply, but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government, stated that its policy was unchanged and that mediation in the Ruhr was at present impossible. On a division of the House, ostensibly on account of a civil service vote, the Government secured a majority of only...
...deputation, appointed by the British Labor Party, is in the Ruhr investigating conditions. The delegates, all M. P.'s, are Thomas Shaw, Charles R. Buxton, William Adamson...