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General Degoutte, French Commander-in-Chief of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was instructed by Premier Herriot of France to permit the return to the occupied areas of the Germans expelled therefrom since the beginning of the occupation in January...
...Edouard Herriot, who was considered certain to be made Premier of France the moment President Millerand was forced out, stated in a letter to his allies the Unified Socialists, what his foreign policy would be. The two main points were: 1) abandonment of Poincare policy in the Ruhr; 2) suppression of the French Embassy to the Vatican. As might well be expected the conservative French press let out one prolonged howl and showed that it intended to make full use of the proposed break by appealing to religious sentiment, 38/39 of the population of France being Catholic. The Vatican showed...
...clearly stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles that Germany must submit to Allied military control, but when the French and Belgians entered the Ruhr in January, 1923, control lapsed. When passive resistance to the Franco-Belgian forces was abandoned by the Germans, the Allies stated their desire to resume military inspection. Several notes were exchanged without visible effect...
...Ruhr miners, locked out by their employers (TIME, June 2), accepted the award of Dr. Syrup, arbitrator of the German Ministry of Labor, for a 5% increase hi wages, a special overtime agreement valid until Nov. 30. The miners returned to work...
...democrats of all countries I have received most encouraging promises of cooperation. Our first job will be to settle the difficulties in the way of putting the Experts' Report into operation and after it is in operation we shall study the conditions under which evacuation of the Ruhr may take place...