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Speech delivered before the Cabinet, 2nd March 1923.
The Prime Minister. Honourable Colleagues,-The situation on the Ruhr has remained stationary during these last weeks. While the two disputants seem to settle themselves more rigidly in their respective positions of passive resistance on the part of Germany and active pressure on the part of Belgium and France, England has not changed her attitude of benign disapproval and Italy has neither increased nor reduced the number of technical experts representing her on the Ruhr. So far there has not arisen the new factor which would lead, in one sense or the other, to the solution of the crisis. This new factor could consist either in a direct proposal made by one disputant to the other, or in a request for mediation, or in the modification, on a political basis, of the aims which France says she has in view-aims of an economic nature, which so far have not gone beyond the limit of the payment of reparations-or else in an increase of the opposition of England which would lead to the withdrawal of her troops from the Rhine.