Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII : $b The Great Results of the War
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Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII : $b The Great Results of the War
League of Nations; Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28); World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects; World War, 1914-1918 -- Finance
"They have got the finest industrial secret service in Spain that I
have seen in my life. And to what end? All to the great end that
when the war is over, in Spain as in Holland and in Switzerland,
the wheels of German output will be going.... Germany will put on
the goods, as I have seen with my own eyes, 'Made in Spain,' 'Made
in Switzerland,' and 'Made in Holland.' Your own goods, machine
tools, are going out in the markets of the world now and
forevermore in competition with German-made stuff, made by German
hands, made by German capital, part with stuff that is marked
offensive, in competition with stuff that is marked as I have said
it would be marked."
[Illustration: Photo by Paul Thompson
An Antidote for the Submarine Pest
Quantity production of eighty-foot motor boats in a shipyard at Bayonne,
N. J., for use as scouts and submarine hunters.]
NO ECONOMIC BOYCOTT AFTER THE WAR
The official leaders of the Allied Governments soon found that the
scheme to start an economic war after peace had been negotiated had no
very strong support. President Wilson took a hand in subjecting the
Paris resolutions advocating this economic war to unfavorable criticism.
The British Trades Union by a large majority showed their disapproval of
them. The London _Economist_ also disapproved of the program of a
vindictive trade policy after the war, though it thought that an
economic boycott might be used as a threat to force Germany to make
peace. Lord Robert Cecil took the ground that it would not be wise to
attempt an economic war. The labor point of view was that an economic
war was bound to produce another outbreak of militarism. The Speaker of
the British House of Commons, who always occupies a non-partisan
position, in an address at Carlisle on war aims, showed no sympathy with
the proposal:
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