Englands Handelskrieg und die chemische Industrie

Abstract

THIS work consists of a series of translations of lectures, speeches, and articles by English, French, American, Russian, and Italian chemists, and by certain publicists like Lord Moulton, and by public bodies as the British Science Guild, which appeared at the outbreak of the Great War, or immediately prior to it. In addition, a number of utterances by public men and others, of more or less importance, have been culled -from newspapers and the periodical press to support what is the apparent purpose of the publication, namely, to insinuate that the real motive which impelled England to participate in the war was her distrust and jealousy of Germany's industrial preeminence, especially in the chemical arts, and her consciousness that she was losing the world's markets owing to Germany's greater technical skill and scientific knowledge, and her better business organisation and financial methods. This idea is implied in the title of the work. It has been sedulously propagated in Germany that the real author of the war,, was England, and that it was solely to her diplomacy that the catastrophe was brought about—an explanation, and it may be added an exculpation, which doubtless commends itself to the soul of the Teuton.

Englands Handelskrieg und die chemische Industrie.

Von Prof. Dr. A. Hesse Prof. Dr. H. Grossmann. Band 1. Pp. iv + 304. Band 2: Neue Folge. England, Frankreich, Amerika. Pp. iv + 344. Band 3: Dokumente über die Kali-, Stickstoff- und Superhosphat-Industrie. Herausgegeben von A. Hesse, H. Grossmann, und W. A. Roth. Pp. iv + 204. (Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1915–1919.) 98 marks.