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Show EVACUATION OF RUHRJEMANDED WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS DESIGNATED DESIG-NATED BY CHANCELLOR AS BASIS OF SETTLEMENT Chancellor Says World Realizes Ger. many Impotent in Face of Present Pres-ent Strength of France; Called Insulting Affront Munich. Unconditional evacuation ef the Ruhr is designated by Chancellor Chan-cellor Cuno as the fundamental premise prem-ise from which any disoussion aiming to end the present conflict must proceed. pro-ceed. In a long speech Thursday night the chancellor reiterated the government's govern-ment's position, asserting that it had not authorized mediation by any third party, but that on the other hand it tad received numerous "feelers" from ' unauthorized quarters. He asserted that these proposals constiute "a violation vio-lation of German honor or common sense." Referring between Premiers Poin-eare Poin-eare and Theunis, Herr Cuno expressed express-ed the opinion that these conversations conversa-tions suggested no progress toward a solution of the Ruhr question. The official communique issued after the conference failed, in the chancellor's opinion, to dissipate the suspicion that France had not abandoned her uspir-stion uspir-stion to annex territory. Afore recent readings of the Brussels discussions, Herr Cuno Asserted, As-serted, have impressed German officials offi-cials with the thought that they aimed aim-ed at a complete overthrow of the Versailles treaty. The German people, he said would stoutly oppose the suggestion of a tmffer state fronting the Rhine. The chancellor declared that the world by this time probably had awakened to a realization that it is a disarmed and Impotent Germany which requires security se-curity rather than France, which now commands the world's greatest land forces and the most powerful air Ileet |
