Berlin, March 21. During a political conference on the theme: "Who should govern the German nation?", Socialist leader Breitscheid declared yesterday in Nuremberg that the candidate of the Right Bloc, Jarres, had definitively advocated the abandonment of the Ruhr and that his statements on this subject in the electoral district of Berlin were quite famous. "I very much regret," said Mr. Breitscheld, "that I am obliged to refresh Mr. Jarres's memory, but please allow me at least to ask him a few questions:
"In a session of the Reichstag Foreign Affairs Committee at the end of 1923, did he not make the following statement: 'What do you want? We must abandon the Ruhr basin in order to recapture it by force of arms in 10 or 20 years.'" »
On the other hand, the Social Democratic Parliamentary Service published a letter from Mr. Jarres, dated September 1923, during the passive resistance in the Ruhr, in which the First Mayor of Duisburg called on the Berlin government to issue an ultimatum to France, demanding that it evacuate the Ruhr Basin and the regions occupied as sanctions, under threat of declaring the Treaty of Versailles null and void.
"France," added Dr. Jarres, "will obviously respond to us with a declaration of war. But this declaration, given the state of German disarmament, will be entirely platonic, and France will confine itself to occupying other German territories. This threat will aggravate the European conflict, without which the liberation of the Rhineland is completely inconceivable. This conflict must lead to a war of revenge, for it is the only logical solution emerging from current policy."

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London, March 21. The diplomatic editor of the Daily Telegraph wrote:

"It was admitted yesterday in British circles that Mr. Benes's plan to divide Europe into two groups of nations, Western and Eastern, bound to each other by a mutual security pact, could also help to find a solution.
To include in the proposed Eastern Pact the successor states of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, hitherto in conflict, would certainly be in accordance with the conclusions of the British declaration of policy made at Geneva. But the pact could easily become so general as to be unwieldy and impractical, and, if reinforced by an economic mission, it would inevitably lead to the danger of an Austro-German reunion and the creation of a Danube federation to which Italy would not consent."