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...trusted to administer the country in a quiet, calm and dignified manner, without rushing into new and dangerous legislation. Bonar Law's term of office is conspicuous for its lack of enterprise. Nothing important, excepting the Baldwin Budget, was accomplished. He was content to keep Britain out of the Ruhr, to let trade take its own course, to keep out of foreign politics as much as possible. He cannot claim any credit for the agreement with Washington on the British debt; that was decided upon by Lloyd George. He tried to reduce unemployment by common-sense methods, but even this...
...program of tonight's speeches follows: "L'Italie at La France", Louis Salano '24 "La Question de la Ruhr", De Vaux de Lancey '24 "Les Etats-Unis et la Ligue des Nations", H. F. Potter '23 Violin solo: "Chanson a Louis XIII et Pavanne", Mme. Marie Dalliere, Violinist Miss Susan Williams, Accompanist "L'Avenir Colonial de la France", Meyer Rubin '24 "Le Retablissement d'Etats-Generaux", W. O. Clark '23 "M. Raymound Poincare", H. M. Hite ocC. Violin Solos: Minuet, Gluck Gavotte, Lully Tambourin, Leclair Mme. Marie Dalliere
Aside from the outward manifestations in the Ruhr, the week's most important event in diplomatic circles was the British answer to the German note. It is evident that the British Government saw fit to seize a favorable opportunity to change its stand on the whole Ruhr question. Hitherto Great Britain has maintained an attitude of despairing neutrality upon a question which vitally affects her own interests; now she is determined to have her say in the ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable...
...Sedan or are crushed along the Marne; whether they falsify the Ems telegram in 1870 or violate Belgian neutrality in 1914, they are a people for whom war is for all time their national industry and for whom peace is only an armistice between wars. . . . We are in the Ruhr," continued M Poincaré. " So long as she (Germany) does not pay us she will...
Doctor Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, head of the Krupps munition works: " Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for encouraging resistance to the French in the Ruhr, I am likely to escape with one-third of it. French law does not permit the imprisonment for my offense to exceed five years...