Author: Clarence W. Barron

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9781331169574

Excerpt from War Finance: As Viewed From the Roof of the World in Switzerland But slight introduction is needed for these letters from Europe, with succeeding notes, on War Finance. It was to get the causes underlying the European War that I visited England and the Continent in the autumn of 1914 and published early in 1915 The Audacious War dealing with the problems at the inception of the great conflict. It was to study the finance under the war, its probable duration and its financial and economic results, that I left home in July, 1918, and visited England, France, Switzerland, and the devastated region behind the battle front. I returned in October, bringing my letters and notes, because no such matter at that time could be expected to promptly pass the censorship. After publishing in the Boston News Bureau and The Wall Street Journal my observations from Switzerland, I was about to ask Washington permission to deal freely with our American supply bases, when it was announced that the censorship concerning such matters was lifted. I was therefore immediately free to give data that no other journalist had been in position in France to gather. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.