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...Republican Discord. "The Executive proposes adherence to the existing World Court. The request falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present...
...they chose. Now the larger papers, having acquired a sense of responsibility to their readers, sedulously rule out of their news columns all advertisements. This led to the development of press agents, who manufactured news that would render incidental advertisement. With a detective eye the best newspapers watch and reject this stuff...
...notable speech: "I make no concealment of the fact that I consider the Experts' Report as decisive progress, as compared to all that went before, and I decline to assume responsibility for anything that may happen to us in connection with our foreign relations in case we reject the Report." He also said that he believed France would be easier to deal with now that the Lefts were in power and he reminded the reactionaries in no uncertain voice that they had apparently forgotten that Germany had lost...
Paul Rohrbach, German publicist, returned to Berlin from a trip to the U. S. Wrote he, advising the Germans to accept the experts' reports unconditionally : "Many in Germany, especially in conservative quarters, seem to think the Germans can either accept or reject the Dawes report. In reality it is like this: Acceptance is a desperate decision, but rejection is impossible. "Those who hate self-deception and are not politically ignorant will admit that America must make the final decision on all questions involved in the Dawes report. America is neither generously inclined toward nor well-informed concerning Germany...
...Nationalists, repudiating the Extreme Nationalists such as General Ludendorff and stating that his party, if in power, would not sign promises unless it could fulfill them. He wanted certain reservations made, the precise nature of which were not known; but he stated that his attitude by no means presupposed rejection. As utter chaos stares Germany in the face, if she reject the Dawes plan, its ultimate passage is certain. This was recognized by moderates of all Parties. The torrent of editorials in the American press to the effect that the election was to test the Republican sentiment of the country...