 The British—who openly championed the German position on reparations—applied intense economic pressure on France to change its policies towards Germany.At a conference in London in 1924 to settle the Franco-German crisis caused by the "Ruhrkampf", the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald successfully pressed the French Premier Édouard Herriot to make concessions to Germany.The British diplomat Sir Eric Phipps who attended the conference commented afterwards that