Word: briey
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...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...
...this was not the explanation that emerged from headquarters; instead it was stated that if Briey were bombarded, the Germans, in reprisal, would turn their guns on Dombasle in Meurthe-etMoselle, where equally large-scale mining operations were supplying the French with much of their own raw material for ordnance and ammunition. So long as the French left Briey alone the Germans would let Dombasle alone; what hothead was there who would want to upset the apple cart under these circumstances? Of course, it the French and Germans had leveled the other's smelters, the war would have ended sooner...
...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...
...naive civilian would he quite wrong. Bombs did not burst at Briey: He where near Briey did more than a few shells from either side fall during the entire course of the war. There were even line officers who shared civilian naivete enough to question Fernch G. H. Q. on the immunity of Briey. A reasonable explanation could have been that the French were withholding, fire from Briey because they, in turn, hoped to recapture the basin and turn its products back to France...