All voted for acceptance, except for Schacht, who said, in his harsh Frisian accent, “We cannot accept the terms—we can never fulfill them.” He insisted that the Dawes Plan’s failure to reduce the total level of reparations was its fatal flaw. But it was Stresemann who had the final word. “We must get the French out of the Ruhr. We must free the Rhineland. We must accept.”
