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Significance. With the Germans in London, the last stage of the Premiers' Conference will have begun. France at present is willing to evacuate the Ruhr progressively in a two-year period starting from the time that the Experts' Plan is put into effect, which is expected on Oct. 15. The Germans will probably demand immediate and outright evacuation of the Ruhr, but they were expected to agree with little difficulty to the main provisions of the Allied Concord as above detailed. Even when final agreement in the Conference has been reached, much will depend upon the attitude...
Seizures made by France and Belgium in the Ruhr are not included in the statement. These were considered to amount to 600,000,000 gold marks. Therefore, the total effective sum to be debited from the total reparations figure during the five years which the Treaty of Versailles has been in force is about 6,000,000,000 gold marks...
...into office, international conferences went out of fashion. He, like Demosthenes, believed that the first, second and third parts of oratory were all "action." He consented to send a representative to the Genoa Conference, but upon the conspicuous failure of that meet, M. Poincare sent his soldiers to the Ruhr and stuffed wool into his ears...
...Germany has two desires: she wants to see the German territory, occupied beyond the stipulations of the Peace Treaty, returned to German control and complete amnesty for those deported or imprisoned as a result of the Ruhr struggle. Germany feels very strongly on the first point. M. Herriot is rapidly bringing about a solution of the second...
...Only the waning season can account for the descent upon the stage of a comedy like this. It represents the efforts of various groups to gain possession of a farm which contains a beauty clay and therefore becomes, for the purposes of farce, as precious as the Ruhr valley. The authoress, Katherine Browning Miller, manages to hammer out a witticism now and then by virtue of trying...