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...consequence of the plan would be the evacuation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium, as there would be no motive in occupying it any longer. The plan does not take up the question of the existing military occupation, but it would directly affect it if it went through...
House of Commons. Herbert H. Asquith and David Lloyd George, leaders of the Liberal Party, made a sortie against Premier MacDonald's foreign policy. The Premier's handling of Anglo-French relations was strongly attacked, Mr. Asquith expressing dissatisfaction with the Ruhr and Rhineland questions. Mr. MacDonald upheld his belief that the League of Nations was the best instrument to limit the existing menace to world peace...
...useless for the protection of another country without the details being given of the force whereby it is backed?" he asked heatedly. The former Premier complained that Mr. MacDonald's policy was nebulous; he twitted the Labor Government with failure to protest against French intentions to make the Ruhr occupation permanent; he gave warning that the Franco-Prussian industrial agreements were operating to the detriment of Great Britain...
...foreign affairs, France cannot evacuate the Ruhr before total payment of reparations. At home France wishes to re-establish the balance of her budget, to refrain from loans and to undertake no expenditure not covered by equivalent receipts...
...latter sources of reparations. Reparations in kind would be obtained by means of orders in Germany, conducted in the usual commercial manner through the gold issue bank from the funds made available to che individual nations from the income from these sources. Should France want coal from the Ruhr, she could pay pithead prices to the owners of the Ruhr mines by drafts on her credits deposited in the gold issue bank. Thus military occupation and accusations of bad faith would be obviated...