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Premier Poincare had the French experts on the Committee acquainted with the views of the French Government. He instructed them to incorporate into any plan 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...
...French people and the probability of revolution. The desire to prevent Germany from winning an economic victory, the determination to make Germany pay reparations and the supreme intention of safeguarding the French people from financial catastrophe and future military aggression, were the cardinal reasons why France went into the Ruhr...
...that the only chance of ever being able to pay cash to the Allies lay in creating a favorable trade balance with which to buy foreign securities. They reproached the Allies for not having given them adequate aid in their own interests immediately after the War, and when the Ruhr occupation took place the nation put its back against the wall...
...There were nearly double this number under arms owing to the military commitments of France in the Ruhr and elsewhere...
...Marine Corps to make the people conform to laws they evidently do not like." The Chamber of Deputies voted an appropriation of 15,000,000 francs for the relief of sufferers from "floods, tidal waves, avalanches, forest fires and other calamities." Communists in Paris decided to hold a Ruhr protest meeting. They secured the Syndicalist Hall. The Syndicalists waited until the Communists (now their hated enemies) arrived and then began to break up the meeting. When Marcel Cachin mounted the platform, a free fight broke out. Chairs, lamps, windows and the platform were broken. Then numerous revolver shots. People fled...