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...armament industry know the fact well and build on it today. If a Schueider-Creusot salesman sells 100,000 rifles to Yugoslavia he has already eased the path of the Vickers-Armstrongs salesman in selling 200,000 rifles to Italy. "Under this strange system," the French economist, Delaisi, wrote not long ago, "the war potential of a great country, or of a group of countries, is strengthened by the development of the adverse military power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/26/1934 | See Source »

...Brussels last week it became known that King Albert, always a major factor in Belgian crises, recently consulted famed French Economist Francis Delaisi and said pensively to him at their last conference in the Royal Palace: "I am profoundly convinced that our civilization is at a turning point. Can we maintain it as it has been? That is the problem which haunts me day and night. Do you know, M. Delaisi, I find myself strangely preoccupied by what is going on in Russia. Is it the end of all civilization which is being prepared there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesty in Council | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

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