LOUIS BRUNEAU, GERMANY IN FRANCE (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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LOUIS BRUNEAU, GERMANY IN FRANCE

Louis Bruneau, Germany in France, 2nd edition, Paris, 1914 (articles in La Grande Revue).

Quotes:

| | L. Nicot, Germany in Paris (1887).G. Montbard, The Enemy (1889). It ends: “Germany must be destroyed if Gallia is to live.” M. Schwob, The German Danger, 1896. ” Before the Battle, 1904.Em. Jennissen, The German Spectre, 1906.André Barre. The German Menace, 1908.Jean d’Epée, Greater Germany, 1910.Henry Gaston, Germany at Bay , 19..?[1] | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Germany lacks iron (deposits will be exhausted within 40 years (p. 3))—imports are increasing:

| 8 | million | tons | in | 1908 | | | | -- | ------- | ---- | -- | ---- | | ------ | | 11 | ” | ” | ” | 1911 | | (p. 2) |

while in France deposits have been discovered at Meurthe and Moselle—in French Lorraine — — —

Iron output... 2.6 million tons in 1890
4.4 1900
14.8 1911
Nancy . . . . . 200 million tons of ore
Briey . . . . 2,000
Longwy . . . 300
Crusnes . . . 500
3,000 million tons of ore

Deposits discovered in Normandy: 100-700 million tons of ore.

| French iron | ore exports to Germany: | | | | | | | ----------- | ----------------------- | ---- | -- | ---- | | -------- | | 1.7 | million | tons | in | 1909 | | | | 2.8 | ” | ” | ” | 1912 | | (p. 21). |

German coal exports to France
1909 —3 million tons
1912 —5.7

A Dutch merchant (Poorter) is buying up land with iron ore deposits in Normandy (already has 3,496 hectares), selling the ore to Germany (pp. 24-25). (Details follow.)

Stinnes and Krupp are buying up iron ore mines (30-31)—partly through Poorter.

Examples of “holdings” and composition of management boards (35)....

...(mostly Frenchmen + Germans)....

Thyssen, growth of his concern, etc.

Examples, composition of boards, financial holdings, etc., etc.

Migration of firms to France, etc.

No generalisations.

(See articles on this in La Grande Revue.)



Notes

[1] The book was published in 1912.—Ed.



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