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...British Foreign Office was the scene of many diplomatic talks. It appears that the entire question was boiled down to the fact that France would have to choose between isolation and joining the long-mooted conference on the Ruhr and reparations settlement...
...that his suggestions were received unfavorably by the French Government, which considers the Pope's message an attempt to undermine the French position. The note was favorably received in Italy, Britain, Belgium and Germany, as it virtually backed the present plans for forcing an early Ruhr and reparations settlement...
...professions in which, if a man does his best work, he is likely to starve. However, there are compromises to be made. A young novelist brought his manuscript to me last week. He was a boy I had met at a meeting of some down town settlement club. " What am I to do?" he asked. " I'm in the doll business. There's no excitement in that and no one to whom I can talk! " What a gift it is to the world to find the sort of person to whom one can talk, who suddenly impresses one as being...
Last week the French stated that they would confiscate all the Ruhr Valley industries, punish sabotage with death and resistance with imprisonment. This order, not yet promulgated, in no way affects the subterranean efforts for a "settlement" which have been going on for some weeks at Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, even Washington. The French have no intention of staying their hand in the Ruhr until definite preliminaries to a settlement of the Ruhr and reparations problem have been agreed upon...
...main questions outstanding are a settlement of the insurance question for the Smyrna fire and the settlement of the method of paying the Ottoman debt−France at present demanding gold, Turkey offering paper money...