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...Allies proceeded to make it clear that the Cologne bridgehead was not evacuated last January (TIME, Jan. 5, INTERNATIONAL) because Germany had not lived up to the Treaty which, they insisted, was in itself a "serious menace to peace." "In fine," says paragraph No. 8 of the note, "it now rests with the German Government themselves to create conditions so that the evacuation can speedily be effected. It is they themselves who will profit by the readiness with which they give effect to the rectifications demanded, as well as the care with which they proceed strictly to conform their attitude...
...Cologne bridgehead: "The fact that there is still an evacuation question is a sign that there has been no progress. . . . For more than three and a half months, we have waited vainly for a substantial justification of non-evacuation. . . . We must definitely expect that the allied governments will no longer delay to end this state of affairs...
...evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area or not to evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area? That was the question, reduced to its simplest expression, which was to the fore in France, Britain and Germany; the rest of the world was an interested spectator...
Another factor which doubtless influenced the Allies was that, according to the London Agreement (which settled the means and ways of putting the Experts' Plan into operation), the Ruhr area is not to be evacuated until Aug. 30, 1925. Withdrawal of British troops, which hold the Cologne bridgehead, would isolate France, who would then be obliged to reoccupy the,area...
...German Professor, father of the girl, cames up panting: " Let him be tried by law." They reach the bridgehead. The leader calls for a stouter rope. Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...