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A note of warning is sounded by Dr. C. TV. MacFarlane 1 in " The 

 Economic Basis of an Enduring Peace" published in 1918. He goes 

 further than De Launay and suggests the expropriation of the coal 

 fields of Westphalia in order to secure to France the necessary fuel 

 for her industries. He disposes of the problem of the assimilation of 

 the German people of Westphalia by stating that France is more 

 successful in dealing with her colonies than Germany and he claims 

 that the German population would be contented to become citizens 

 of an industrial republic rather than of an absolute monarchy. 

 Whether these reasons would be sufficient to insure the suc- 

 cessful assimilation into France of a population more essentially 

 German than Alsace-Lorraine is French is a matter of some doubt, 

 but he realizes that by depriving Germany of 75 per cent of her avail- 

 able supply of iron ore and by assigning to France 60 per cent of 

 German coal in the district of Westphalia we would completely wreck 

 Germany as an industrial power. He therefore proposes to turn over 

 to Germany the control of Turkey in Asia, in order that she may 

 rehabilitate her iron and steel industries with the high-grade mag- 

 netites of Asia Minor. This solution of the difficulty with its neces- 

 sary concomitant of an all-rail route between Germany and Asia 

 Minor, with a tunnel under the Bosphorus, and a proposed federated 

 Balkan State under international guaranty, will not appeal to the 

 many people who conceive that the increasing participation of Ger- 

 many in near eastern affairs is already a distinet menace. And if it 

 has proved impossible to assure the integrity of a nation like 

 Belgium, which is a well established unity, we may be pardoned for 

 declining to assume the responsibility of welding the seething Balkan 

 turmoil into any sort of federated State under a'n international 

 guaranty. Nevertheless, MacFarlane's book serves a needed purpose 

 by pointing out what we are liable to forget in our natural desire 

 to see the industries of France placed upon a stable basis — namely, 

 that by depriving Germany of practically all her iron and by annex- 

 ing to France so much of German coal that there sball be no commer- 

 cial interdependence between France and Germany, we are transfer- 

 ring the predominance of industrial power from Germany to France. 

 In fact, we would transfer it to such good effect that we would rele- 

 gate Germany to a position of industrial impotence at the same time 

 that we placed an undue industrial supremacy in the hands of France, 

 who would then control by her production two and a half times as 

 much iron ore as Great Britain, and almost six times as much as 

 Germany. Such a situation would not be entirely free from danger 

 to the future peace of Europe. 



Tungsten. — Through French sources have come various interesting 

 ideas for the post-war disposition of other minerals less important 



1 MacFarlane, C. W., " The Economic Basis of an Enduring Peace," fieo. W. Jacobs & 

 Co., Philadelphia, 1918. 



