Juno 22.
Every mail from Europe now brings a fresh*sheaf of German leaflets on the alleged iniquities of France in general and the French troops in Germany in particular.
One sentence, from Dr. von Rosemberg's speech. in the Reichstag) on March 17, catches the eye and must really be quoted Whenever France shall recognize Germany's right to freedom and economic development, respect her sovereignty, and refrain from humiliating her, just as Germany would never dream of hurting the feeling of her neighbours, the peace and prosperity of Europe would be assured.
Possibly Dr. von Rosemberg is thinking of some new Germany, which has turned over a new leaf and totally forgotten that it ever dreamed of ''world conquest or nothingness" and in pursuit of this ambition did its best to ruin France's wealthiest provinces and plunged the world into four years of the most terrible war in history. More than this we do not propose to quote.
Many of our readers, we know, have already seen these pamphlets and we do not desire to help the German propaganda bureau by giving them further publicity.
The history of the French occupation of the Ruhr has now dragged on so long that a dispassionate survey of it will be welcomed by many.
Such a survey appears in the ''Fortnightly Review'' for May, a magazine which is never partisan in any question.
The writer, Mr. John Bell, has been in the-Ruhr from
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