The occupation of the Ruhr was undoubtedly successful by showing that passive resistance of Germany was a failure. France wants money and it is hardly fair to make the very people who have rebuilt ...

Rome, 28 June 1923 - Pope Pius XI has weighed in on the German reparations question and condemned the ongoing French occupation of the Ruhr. In a letter issued on his behalf by his Papal Delegate ...

In Dusseldorf, 5,000 unemployed people attacked the Town Hall, and as a result, French troops were summoned ... most notably the occupation of the Ruhr, had failed and that what was now required ...