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insurance policies, industrial insurance and other annuities
and the like are undermined. Financial and political judgment
is given in full detail in the earlier memorandums.
In case the present financial situation, 1939-41, should
be placed in comparison with the war financing during the
World War of 1914-1918, the reader is referred to the publi-
cation of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace
(German Series v. Lodz, "German Government Financial Manage-
ment in the War', 1927 edition) for the figures for war
financing.