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...words of Lord Curzon to the Imperial Conference in London, passive resistance in the Ruhr has been supplanted by passive assistance. The towns of Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Witten, Horde, Bochum, however, recognized the legality of the Ruhr occupation by agreeing to pay their quota of the occupational costs to France and Belgium. In other places expulsion by the French of resisting population continued...
During the week Lord Renfrew received telegrams and letters from blue law exponents urging him to give up his Sunday golf. He did not answer any of them and went on playing. It appears that the cranks had all but tamed the Canadians to give up the clubs and go to church, when, emulating Renfrew's example, all Canada took to playing golf on Sunday...
...Ranch was invaded by some 300 people who attended the annual picnic of the Alberta Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Lord Renfrew's greeting: "Fellow Albertans, you are welcome and I hope you will enjoy the outing. My ranch is open to you today; go as far as you like." The royal rancher was taken at his word, his place was thoroughly inspected by the visitors and he was asked to pose for many snapshots...
...remained out of the House and then came back on a bye-election in Paisley. The principal Cabinet posts he has held: Secretary of State for Home Affairs under Gladstone and Roseberry, 1892-5; Chancellor of the Exchequer under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905-08; Prime Minister (and First Lord of the Treasury), 1908-1916; and in 1914 for a brief period he held the additional portfolio of Secretary of State...
...English have become more and more condemnatory of France. Whether a dearth of Ruhr trade and flattened English pocket-books have given rise to this attitude is a nice point for speculative minds. At any rate, that this attitude now exists ins an establish of fact, especially since Lord Curzon's vigorous message on the subject sent to Premier Poincare a few weeks ago. America, though assuming the pose of the onlooker with his feet well out of all dust and dirt, is perhaps inclined to favor the French action. Therefore each side in the debate this evening will voice...