During the second winter of the Great War, General Joffre intended to strike a blow at the enemy by cutting off the wheat route. He wants France to double Germany in its orders of Romanian cereals and thus deprive it of a precious supply. Missed. I have trouble convincing the government. "While the French discuss, the Germans act and buy the wheat," writes Ali Laïdi (World History of Economic Warfare , Perrin). "Joffre is furious and can only see the slowness of the administration." France finally buys only part of the harvest it could have harvested in full, and it leaves stored its wheat on the spot, which Germany got hold of when it invaded the country in the autumn of 1916.
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All things considered, this battle for Romanian wheat, in which England also participated, evokes the contemporary war for the Chinese mask which is played directly on the tarmacs. Almost all shots are allowed to get your hands
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