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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I am taking this opportunity, Professor Feuillerat, of answering your interview which appeared in the CRIMSON. Due to limitations of space the editors of the CRIMSON have asked me to shorten my original communication and I am able, therefore, to deal with only one of the questions at issue, all of which I had hoped to discuss.

You state in your reply to my interview:

"It is not true that the French have any wish or inclination to incite a rebellion in the Rhineland. This is no matter of theirs." I agree with you that it is no matter of theirs. Unfortunately, the powers that be in your country think otherwise. Ray Stannard Baker in his "Woodrew Wilson and World Settlement", II, 87 substantiating a report of General Pershing, relates that on May 22, 1919, General Mangin, commanding general of the French army at Mainz, sent a colonel of his staff to General Liggett's headquarters at Coblenz to inquire what the American attitude would be toward a political revolution on the west bank of the Rhine for the establishment of an independent Rhineland republic free from Germany. The staff officer stated that fifty French deputies were ready to be sent into the American sector to assist in starting the revolution. The proposition referred to revolved around Hans Dorten of Wiesbaden. M. Clemenceau conducted an investigation and wrote a letter to General Mangin, of which Baker says: "In this letter there was no serious censure of General Mangin, much less any repudiation of his project. . . . Indeed, no secrecy was made of the concurrence of the Government in Mangin's sympathy with the movement for revolt." Doesn't that rather disprove your statement? Some more facts may convince you. Early in 1923 Josef Smeets, the Bavarian separatist leader in the Rhineland, testified in court that he had been receiving money from French sources in connection with that campaign.

A report dated April 16, 1923, addressed by the high commissioner of the French Republic in the Rhine provinces, Paul Tirard to the Secretariat General, Paris, reviewed the relations of the French authorities in occupied Germany with Dr. Dorten. This report contains the following sentences: "the French high commissariat did everything it could do without bringing itself to grief to preserve for Dr. Dorten the possibility of action. . . . Thanks to this support, I often was able to get his adherents together, maintain their enthusiasm, increase his propaganda and establish journals.

In a longer communication to the CRIMSON, within the very day your interview appeared. I proved that your other statements were just as misinforming as the one refuted here. Unfortunately the CRIMSON's space is limited. G. F. JENTSCH.