Word: krupps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from this vantage point that he was able to watch the sweep of events that led to the France-Prussian War. Alfred Krupp saw it coming, too. He like Schneider, was capable of an internationalism far above the confines of narrow patriotism and was anxious to equip Napoleon Ill's armies with his own cannon a suggestion not entirely without its legic or, even, its sportsmanship, for Krupp had borrowed in Paris (from the same banking house of Setlliere as had set Engene Schneider up in business) and the money with which he made the guns that late, humbled France...
...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; a power so mighty that they...
...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...
Under his son, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the house rose to higher and higher glories. Yet Friedrich Alfred failed in one important respect: he left no make heir to carry on. It took Kaiser Wilhelm II to solve this difficulty. When big buxom Bertha, Friedrich Alfred's daughter, came of marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command...
...What of Krupp, now? In theory, Krupp smelts only peaceful ore, and forges its steel only into such benign shapes as locomotives, rails, bridge girders, and others purely industrial. Actually, Krupp is rearming Germany--the discoverable portion of whose annual armament bill now about $80,000,000. Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles to import armaments, receives generous supplies from Sweden (where Krupp controls the armament firm of Bofors) and Holland; forbidden to Export armaments, she ships to South America, the Far East, or to any European nation that will violate its own treaty by ordering from...