Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

At its peak in the 1930s, the Vickers network included
Harvey Steel, Chas. Cammell & co. shipbuilding, John
Brown & Co., Krupp and Dillinger of Germany, Terni Co.
of Italy, Bethehem Steel and Electric Boat in the U.S.,
Schneider, Chatillon Steel, Nobel Dynamite Trust, and
Chilworth Gunpowder Co. The trustee for the debentures
of the armaments firms was Royal Exchange Assurance
Co. of London, of which E. Roland Harriman of Brown
Bros Harriman was a director.
As First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill
obligingly changed the fuel of the entire English fleet
from coal to oil, as a favor to the Samuel family which
owned Royal Dutch Shell.
The most revealing works on the armaments dealers, the
Nye Committee Hearings, and "Merchants of Death" are
now fifty years old. On p. 167 of "Merchants" we find
that:
"The Societe Miniere de Penarroya controls the most important lead mines of
the world, accounting for one-eighth of the world's production. Since 1833
the French bankers, the Rothschilds, have controlled these mines, but in
1909 the Rothschild Bank entered into an alliance with the Metallgeschaft of
Frankfurt, the company in which both the Kaiser and Krupp were heavily
interested. This company remained under German and French control for
about two years of the war. At the outbreak of hostilities, 150,000 tons of lead
were shipped from these mines to Germany, via Switzerland. When
shipments to France were resumed, the price was raised to such an extent
that it more than doubled the price which the English paid for their lead. Free
trade between Germany and France in important chemicals, for powder, etc.
continued; the Swiss supplied both sides with electric power. All along their
frontier great powerhouses sprang into being, facing Germany from Italy,
producing iron, bauxite, chemicals and power. Zeiss products were exported
to Britain throughout the war."