Word: armaments
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...General Weygand, a devout Catholic, represents' not the urge for war but, on the contrary, France's desire for peace -- by means of "security." The French threat to the peace of the world lies elsewhere -- in France. For in France, and only in France, a new situation exists: the armament makers are no longer, like Alfred Krupp or Sir Basil Zaharoff in his younger days, humble petitioners of government, hat-in-hand solicitors of orders--their influence is so infiltrated into the industrial, social, and political affairs of the nation that they have power in some ways beyond the State...
...never sets upon Vickers. It has its factories in Rumania where, for greater convenience, Sir Herbert Lawrence is a director of the Bank of Rumania (and Vickers to some degree allies itself with the Czechoslovakian armament firm of Skoda). In Italy it Latinizes its name to Societa Vickers-Terni; in Japan it has as a subsidiary the Japan Steel Works, and thus allies itself with the Japanese armament and industrial firm of Mitsui. There are Vickers factories or subsidiary companies in Spain, Canada, Ireland, Holland (The Hague offers an appropriate site for some of the Vickers operations), and New Zealand...
...known today as Sir Basil Zaharoff. He was on intimate of Lloyd George during the war; a few relatively mild revelations of the degree to which he influenced Great Britain's armament, military, and foreign policies during and after the war were enough, in 1922, to send Lloyd George, who did more than any other man to win the way out of office forever. This strange character, the greatest armament salesman the world has ever known, struck a major spark in the world when he collided with an American of somewhat similar interests. Zaharoff at that time was a salesman...
...naturally, it was the World War that gratified Sir Basil Most. The profits of war time armament manufacture were practically incalculable; by the end of the war Sir Basil had a personal fortune that was estimated as low as $100,000,000 or $200,000,000 and as high as a billion. And in 1917 when there seemed a possibility of peace through the intervention of the United States, Lord Bertie, British Ambassador to France, naively recorded in his diary: "Zaharoff is all for continuing the war jusqu'au bout...
...much for Germany and her Krupp, the United States and Bethlehem Steel. England and Vickers-Armstrongs, and the new withered and scutle Sir Basil. Do these armament businesses seem Big Business." Then you must alter your sense of proportion before you go further. All the foregoing is a more cuvtam vaiser to the Big Show. The Big Show is France...