FRENCH CONCERN
RHINELAND AND RUHR
REMOVAL FROM GERMANY
LONDON, September 2. When the conference of Foreign Ministers opens in London on September 10, the French are likely to lay emphasis on the future of the Ruhr and the Rhineland. A correspondent says the French Government feels strongly that this industrial area should be removed from German control because of its war potential and because the Rhine has always been Germany s spring-board for aggression against western Europe. The official French news agency, which supports this attitude, argues that Germany will never willingly accept the loss of territory in the east; and so to prevent her from launching another war of revenge she must be deprived of her remaining industrial arsenals in the west and be strategically weakened by the loss of the Rhine. ____»«_———
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 6
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133FRENCH CONCERN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 6
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