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...German Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, called on Premier Poincaré. Herr Rödiger, German Chargé d'Affaires at Brussels, called on Foreign Minister Jaspar. Both Germans tried to obtain permission to enter into negotiations on a Ruhr settlement; both were rebuffed. Premier Poincaré said afterwards that the visit of Dr. von Hösch was an attempt by the German Chancellor, Herr Stresemann, to create a world prejudice against France, the position being that Germany had done all possible to effect a settlement of the Ruhr dispute; therefore, it was incumbent upon France...
...view of all this one may wonder what induced his speech. If it was a sincere regard for the laws of the land, one might expect him, to show more zeal on his own part. Lingering soreness over the outcome of the coal strike settlement may have played some part. But the most plausible hypothesis is that of a political motive. He has already announced that if affairs at the White House should not proceed in accord with his standards, he would toss his ha into the presidential ring. Since he came into the governorship on a wave of reform...
...Gave out word that he was opposed to the cancellation of Allied War Debts to the U. S., but favored settlement on easy terms similar to those accorded to Great Britain...
...Empire. Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme, President of the Board of Trade, said that if the Dominions and the mother country worked together they would be able to realize a development throughout the Empire comparable to that which had taken place in America. Subsidiary subjects to Imperial Preference discussed: settlement and adjustment of the population, industrially and agriculturally, financial cooperation within the Empire. General Jan Smuts, Premier of the Union of South Africa, basing his speech on the necessity of providing for the American debt, urged that Africa be developed, stating that it was capable of supplying all the raw materials...
...distinctly anti-French, a fact which caused Lloyd George's heart to rejoice and M. Poincare's hair to rise in anger. He said that Britain awaited French proposals relative to a common policy to be pursued against Germany, because Britain cannot be ignored on a future settlement of reparations. Concerning the late Turkish troubles he complained bitterly of the French attitude to British policy. Fuller debate of all these questions was scheduled to take place later...