Word: armament
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...went. Germany, throughout the war, had urgent need of nickel, aluminum, and chemicals like glycerin for explosives. France, because the rich Briey basin and other sources were out of her control, had to scratch hard for iron and steel. Continuously, therefore, what one nation lacked, the armament manufacturers of an enemy nation did their urgent best to provide. Month after month. German heavy industries exported an average of 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel, or barbed wire to Switzerland, where, having been smelted to a more convenient form, it was then transshipped to France. France, in her turn, shipped...
...Union Europeenne has an even more important function. Through it, Schneider-Creusot reaches out to control 230 armament and allied enterprises OUTSIDE France. The greatest of THESE concerns is that glittering jewel in the crown of principal Ideal State that came into being in 1919 as the reseult of the self-determination of oppressed peoples. The state is Czechoslovakia, and its jewel is Skoda...
...Czar's government was not wholly credulous. It seemed to have some qualms that so much Russian armament should be manufactured on foreign soil. This offered no problem to the armament makers. Schneider installed engineers and managers at the Putilov works in St. Petersburg. The Krupps did likewise. French newspapers screamed that the Krupps were spying. German newspapers screamed that the French were spying. But in 1914 found Schneider and Krupp engineers side by side on terms of cordial friendship, overseeing ordnance manufacture on behalf of Nicholas H, Czar of all the Russias
Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider is a man of many offices the executive head of hundreds of armament firms throughout Europe. He is President of the Schneider-Creuset company, armament manufacturers with mines, smelters, and foundries scattered through France. He is director of the Banque de I'Union Parisienne, one of whose most profitable sources of business is the financing loans for armaments. In 1920 he founded and became the President of the Union Europeenne Industrial et Financier--a holding company, capitalized at 140,000,000 Frances. Through it Schneider-Creusto controls 182 French companies that manufacture heavy ordnance, machine guns...
...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...