of farm lands have ended rapidly, it was because colonization
societies, called "black bands," have overtly bought up or had bought
up the properties by their agents, in the hope that their plans would
be realized after the war. In industrial matters, there was recently
founded in Berlin a German syndicate which proposes to buy up the
actions.
For the textile industry in particular, it is a question of a
veritable trust against which is arrayed "a syndicate of Alsatian
manufacturers who have felt the need of defending themselves."
The entire scope of recent German policies with regard to
Alsace-Lorraine shows that this land which von Hertling said was
"allied to Germanism by more and more intimate bonds" has been, as a
matter of fact, to treat it like a foreign land, kept by force under
imperial domination and submitted, like the occupied portions of
France and Belgium, to a veritable reign of terror.
APPENDIX VI
HOW GERMANS UNDERSTAND FUTURE PEACE
If an account is desired of the manner in which the Germans understand
a future peace, this letter suffices. It was addressed to the
_Berliner Lokalanzeiger_ by Herr Walter Rathenau. He was in charge of
the direction of all industrial establishments in Germany:
We commenced war a year too soon. When we shall have
obtained a German peace, reorganization on a broader and
more solid basis than ever before must commence immediately.
The establishments which produce raw materials must not only
continue their work, but they must also redouble their
energies and thus form the foundation of Germany's
economical preparation for the next war.
On the lessons taught by actual war we must figure out
carefully what our country lacks in raw materials and
accumulate great stores of these which shall never be
utilized until _Der Tag_ of the future. We must organize the
industrial mobilization as perfectly as the military
mobilization. Every man of technical training or partial
technical training, whether or not he is enrolled in the
list of men who can be mobilized, must have received
authority by official order to take over the direction of
industrial establishments on the second day which shall
follow the next declaration of war.
Every establishment which manufactures for commercial
purposes ought to be mobilized and to know officially that
the third day after the declaration of war it must make use
of all its facilities in satisfying the needs of the Army.
The quantity of merchandise which each one of these
establishments can furnish to the Army in a given time and
the nature thereof ought to be determined in advance. Every
establishment also ought to furnish an exact and complete
list of the workmen with whose services it can dispense, and
those men alone can be mobilized for military services.
Finally commercial arrangements will be made necessary with
nations outside Europe through which we will give them
sufficient advantages, specified in detail, so that it would
be directly advantageous to their commercial interests to
carry on commerce with none of the belligerents and not to
sell them munitions.
We can accept such obligations for ourselves without any
fear and finally, when the next war shall come, it cannot
come a year too soon.
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Transcriber's Notes
Pg. 6, Sunday, August third, left as original as it's uncertain which
day the author meant. Sunday was actually August 2, Monday was August
3; and the context from the beginning of the chapter was that the
declaration of war was delivered late afternoon Monday, August 3.
(Mobilization had commenced the previous evening. To be exact, it was
on Sunday, August third, at midnight.)
Pg. 7, unforgetable changed to unforgettable. (It recalled the
unforgettable scenes.)
Pg. 14, thirteenth changed to thirtieth, per context (when Sunday the
thirtieth of August came).
Pg. 14, week changed to weeks. (For several weeks our troops)
Pg. 54, beseiged and beseiger left as original, as author quoted from
another book. (in a beseiged city can hasten the place's fall; in
consequence it would be very foolish of the beseiger to renounce)
Pg. 88, removed ending double quotes. (I feel better for it.')
Pg. 90, mobolization changed to mobilization (priests who went off at
the beginning of the mobilization).
Pg. 100, sum of artillery kilos do not equal Total kilos. Left as
original.
Pg. 108, tetragon changed to tarragon (16,900 tarragon plants).
Pg. 162, catastrophies changed to catastrophes (irremediable
catastrophes could be avoided?).
Pgs. 163, 206, Bethmann-Hollweg, hyphenation inconsistent with
Pgs. 180, 182, Bethmann Hollweg. Kept as in original.
Pg. 167, ARTICLE 23 has no (b) paragraph.
Pg. 193, protect changed to protest to reflect the actual letter (I
consider it my duty to protest against this threat of violence to the
Ambassador).
Pg. 219, correstionnelle changed to correctionelle ("_chambre
correctionnelle_ at Kolmar).
Pg. 229, Appendix VI, added HOW to title to match Table of Contents
and make it consistent with rest of Appendices.