DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND
it had derived ffom this agerementt
Beitah and American non-combatants weer ene
rave ata cel of won Tipit’ rales subrnarine
ig which constituted a flagrant Breech of
Msn: Bit the Electfe oat Co was more concerned
breach offatematonal patent right ai esteced
claim fefore the AmericanGerman Mixed Chins Comne
‘inion for $4o0c0 on each of the 4oo U-boats built to their
fisgn (the ultimate reedvery was only $125.00). Had they
Town that Germany was to eet them s scurvy, the ize
ofthe Hlectrie Boat Co might not have refed they di, to
Irae over to the US. Navy Departsent certain Gere pater
‘ghtewhich they safeguarded throughout the wat.*
Ttis commonly astumed tha, immediately onthe outneak of
va allcartel agreements Between armament combines psere
in the belligerent countries ae atomically rendered ll ad
‘oid that the Bloody International ir dizolved and ts Tormer
attners ranged solidly behind their respective Governments
‘Bhs ssumption i not necemarily coect, War, 10 the Men
svitbout Countries, represents lite more than a. temporary
Aepartre fom the practice normally flowed inthe meting
of ther products For the moment the fll capaci of thar
Betoris i monopolized by a particular Government in the
Jotersts of particular nation; but they know only too well
atthe very existence in thin ge of siting values and rapid
Politi change, depends on the preservation only in spiet—
fee ternational stseturc, andthe waging of an itcerated
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STEEL HAS XO PATHERLAND 2
Feigiejeopardine the pos-war rerouting of tele foros
Wien onc nation locked i deadly confit with another
fuis nly chat a kindly view il be token of ay attempt
td thate of the enemy State For this very good reson, the
Fife and the public given one bre line of te congpirators
at work, before the polilata and newepaper proprietors rash
fomnard to Block up the gap with thir specious arguments and
One such intance, in the fist World War, concerned
gemcman's agreement belween the French and German ioe
{sials ofthe Brley Basi. ‘The fll tory was est publicaed
Afi in 120. ‘Tae following quotation i fom an intodveson
fo these ails bythe late BD. Morel
1s narrative isa revelation of staggering implications. He
takes us by the hand to the moutho the hell which capitalist
land financiers prepare for the common people of the world
SMfy country, tight or wrong’? That is the: parrot ery with
vihich millions delude dhemelves when iron magnates, seeet
Giplomats, armament manufactorer and the proprietors of
newspaper trusts have miceeeded im bounding nations into
war; and they themseler, the pitiful sheep, fed for a season
Tint their ine has come to be devoured; encouraged £0
breed so that the supply of meat shall be maintained. But
sheep just ss long as they ate prepared to remain sheep.
‘The Briery Basi, in Lorraine, was invaded by the Germans
soon after he outbreak war, abd remained in their unchallenged
possesion until the end of the war. Not until the American
flfenive in the Wirection of Bricy at the end of 1g18 did the
Allies threaten the posesion of the district which, before the
"A Union of Democratic Contra pein.