NOTEBOOK “γ” (“GAMMA”)

LOUIS BRUNEAU, GERMANY IN FRANCE

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

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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 |
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| 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 |
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| | 4.4 | ” | ” | ” | 1900 |
| | 14.8 | ” | ” | ” | 1911 |
| Nancy . . . . . | 200 | million | tons | of | ore |
| Briey . . . . | 2,000 |
| Longwy . . . | 300 |
| Crusnes . . . | 500 |
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| | 3,000 | million | tons | of | ore | (p. 5). |

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

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

| German coal | exports to France |
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| 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 .)

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