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Show I INVASION OF GERMANY Etaving signed the protocol for speedy disarmament, the German leaders again have escaped a crisis in their internal affairs Had Chancellor Pchrenbach and lr Simons refused to attach their signatures, signa-tures, the allied troops would bav immenced their march into the Ruhr district and the invasion would hav subjected an enlarged area of Germany to the humiliation of being under heel b a powerful military force. 1 That these military invasions' inflict hardships on i ho invaded is made plain when it is stated that troops going into a district are billeted on the homes. In Coblenz, when the Americans entered, the city had been gone over and home!, without regard to the social sia'nding of the owners, were marked Foi occupancy, from two a dozen or more soldiers being lodged in each building Soldiers of any tlag are made up principally of men of character, bUI with them are the had and indifferent, even the criminal. To have nn unlocked dooi between your family and the unknown quantity of tlm enemj troops mttsl bring periods Of mental distress and oi groat insecurity, COUpled with a feeling of subjugation. |