Vue Saar Question; A Distasi Svor 1 Evrore. By Sidney Osborne, 12s, 6d, (Allen Unwin).
Many simple folk wonder why Germany shows no eagerness to join the League of. Nations. They forget that the League of Nations has rarely shown itself worthy of its name and_ has generally acted as the obedient instrument of the Treaty of Versailles. The League has, among other things handed over the entire administration - df the, Saar Basin, of which it is the oficial trustee, to an exclusively French control." In other words the League, by depriving Germany of its iron ore and coal and by making a present of these to France and to France's friends is elevating France, already the greatest military power in Europe, to the level of the greatest industrial power. How this grandiose—scheme of denationalisation ' and—appropriation is being worked in the Saar, by a system of espionage, explosion and military oceupation, and by the introduction of the French customs and the French franc, Mr. Osborak describes in masterly fashion in his latest book. he evidence he furnishes is irrefutable; it is based mainly on the actual reports sent to the Council of the League vf Nations by the Saar Basin (governing Commission. A reading of th reports will convince any impartial person that Mr. Osborne is in no way exaggerating when he says that the miners of the Saar Basin are being "treated as the experimental objects of a. heartless and self-seeking administra~ tion, very much as mice and guinea-pigs are treated in the laboratory of a vivisectionist."'—"The Bookman."
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