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Will France Get Anything from the Ruhr?
- Source :
- New Republic; 2/28/23, Vol. 34 Issue 430, p14-17, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 1923
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Abstract
- Presents information on the economic consequences of the French occupation of the Ruhr, Germany. Assumption that France is in the Ruhr for political reasons, and is there to stay, the economic consequences will prove of vastly greater significance; Discussion of motives for the action of France in the Ruhr; View that the French leaders know well enough that Germany is in involuntary default on cash payments; Admittance that the sale of paper marks to foreign bankers and servant girls are no longer a lucrative source of revenue; Were there any valid economic reasons for the French opposition to the appointment of a commission of neutral experts to study the capacity of Germany to pay; Description of two alternatives open to the government in power in France; Report that the only possibility for economic gain lies in a permanent occupation, in the economic, if not political annexation of the Ruhr to France.
- Subjects :
- WAR
ECONOMIC impact
PAYMENT
INVESTORS
REVENUE
BANKING industry
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 430
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15198216