Word: briey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator, goes to the Briey sector in 1917, when the secret machinations of the munitioneers are in full swing. Forbidden to bomb the mines, he understands the reason from the conversations of Zacharey & de Kruif, starts after the mines on his own, is shot down and dies behind the German lines. Madeleine marries Zacharey...
...make my pilgrimage to Briey...
...episode of Briey brings us now to the pinnacle of the arrangement structure. Who held the impulsive line officers in check? The rough whose influence was the general reprimanded...
...question at all. In corroboration there is spread upon the records the testimony of Deputy Pierre Etienne Flandin (scarcely a flaming Bolshevist, for he was later Finance Minister under Tardieu) to the effect that he, an artillery of the French Second Army had been expressly forbidden to bombard Briey when the chance existed, and when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost little of its significance in the long, loud, vicious debates and investigations which followed...
...sell large bills of goods. Here is the rock upon which every private conference that precedes official disarmament conferences has split. Here the circle closes. So long as we must have armaments we must lend rein and scope to the business methods of the armorers. What happened at Briey, considered in this light, was very simple: the mere working out of the profit system in armaments to its perfect, logical, and ultimate conclusion...