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Again, it is very clear that the French object is

not the demilitarization of the Rhineland. Such compara- tively moderate opinion as is represented by M. Philippe Millet is irrevocably opposed to the League guaranteeing the Rhineland after 1985. There is to be absolutely no .question of French evacuation before that date, even assuming (which is, of course, utterly impossible) that Germany had paid the full scale of reparations. After 1935 the French must have complete military access to .the Rhineland, must build strategic railways there, while Germany must not, of course, bring a policeman within fifty miles. In other Words, France must annex the Rhineland.

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