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...which the experts might suggest the present Franco-Belgian control in the Ruhr; to propose Allied or international supervision of German tax-collecting and expenditures; to suggest control or supervision of German resources, such as customs, railroads, tobacco and alcohol monopolies, coal production, which should be set aside for payment of reparations; to make it clear that France will have no objection to other Allies joining her in utilization of the Ruhr...
...that the obligatory partial payment of wages to seamen while on voyage be repealed, because it encourages desertion, delays and loss of efficiency...
Industry was reorganized and an attempt was made to create a favorable trade balance with which to meet payment of reparations. The mark, which had even improved for a time, began to fall rapidly. Payment of the internal debt was made in paper marks and as the mark reacted by falling even more rapidly, so the internal debt was even more rapidly paid off. Industry and commerce were flourishing and goods were dumped in every part of the world where they were allowed to be dumped. Yet, because the mark fell so rapidly, there was always a large adverse trade...
...German farmer and landlord who at the present are starving Germany out. They are refusing to accept paper marks in payment of their produce, though others are compelled to do so, and are thus forcing the retailer to double and treble his prices. And the scandal is that the acuter the food crisis, the louder the execrations against the Jew, who, poor devil, is quite as badly hit as any one else; perhaps even worse; for the Jew preponderates in the professional classes here and it is the lawyer, the doctor and especially the journalist who are having the keenest...
...from America grain, machinery, cotton, preserved goods, meats, etc., if we are not able to send to America our goods and the services of our emigrants? How can we pay our War debt of three and one-half billion lire if America refuses the only means of payment open to us-that is, the export of our goods and the labor of our emigrants...