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El Dorado Daily News
El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas
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In Paris, Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes affirmed that the French occupation of the Ruhr was essential for experts to address Germany's financial issues, echoing Premier Poincare's parliamentary reference and highlighted in French press.
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FRANCE IS RIGHT
Ruhr Occupation Made
Germany See Her
Debt Duty
PARIS. Feb. By The Associated Press. "Certainly, I said it."
declared Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, American member of the first committee of experts, which has been investigating into Germany's financial and economic situation, to The Associated Press tonight. "I repeat it: If the French were not in the Ruhr we experts would not be here."
General Dawes had been asked by the correspondent if he was the expert to whom Premier Poincare referred in addressing the chamber of Deputies yesterday when the premier said that one of the experts recently told a French colleague, "We should have been unable to reach our present results were you not in the Ruhr."
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"I said it as clearly as I could," General Dawes replied. "I repeated it to my colleagues on the committee and I am telling it to you because I believe it."
M. Poincare's reference in parliament to the foreign expert's opinion was given prominence in the French newspapers today, which printed it in heavy type on their front pages.
The Matin attributed the remark to Reginald McKenna, head of the second committee of experts, who was quoted by the newspaper as having declared to a French senator in the course of a private dinner, previous to the Ruhr occupation, the German people were willing to pay, but the industrials refusing, the occupation of the Ruhr convinced the latter of the necessity to no
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Feb.
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the occupation of the ruhr convinced german industrials of the necessity to pay debts.
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Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, American member of the first committee of experts investigating Germany's financial and economic situation, confirmed to The Associated Press in Paris that he stated the French occupation of the Ruhr was necessary for the experts to achieve their results. This remark was referenced by Premier Poincare in the chamber of Deputies, and given prominence in French newspapers, initially attributed to Reginald McKenna.