Lefebure, Victor

Lefebure, Victor. The Riddle of the Rhine Chemical Strategy in Peace and War. New York E.P. Dutton Company, 1923. 

Reported by Victor Lefebure (1921) from an account provided by a casualty. 

In January 1920, Victor Lefebure became identified with a national campaign for German chemical disarmament. Disarmament , he wrote, must attack the potential munitions factor. Military success, the war had shown, rested with the country not compelled to improvise . It had taken the Allies four costly years to achieve the level of production that German industry had stiU in place. In 1921, the IG could, in his view, without difficulty supply more poison gas than would be needed to fill the stock of shell allowed to Germany by the Treaty. 

Victor Lefebure, The Riddle of the Rhine (New York The Chemical Foundation, 1923). 

Victor Lefebure of Britain helped to organize the Inter-Allied Gas Conference in September 1917 in which Britain, France, and the United States shared information on gas research. The contingent from the United States was mostly a recipient of information rather than a contributor. Haber, The Poisonous Cloud, 131-32. The American Expeditionary Force also established a technical laboratory in Paris in January 1918, although its equipment arrived only in May. Sixty-five chemists, officers and enlisted, worked in the laboratory to inspect and evaluate German shells, test water supplies, and conduct various other analytical and practical research. Raymond F. Bacon, The Work of the Technical Division, Chemical Warfare Service, AEF, JIEC 11 (January 1919) 13-15 Jones, The Role of Chemists, 133 0. Britain s William Pope and the U S A s James Conant... 

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