AMERICA AND WAR.
EVIDENCE! AT INVESTIGATION.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, January 8.
Evidence that companies in which J. P. Morgan is interested sold the Allies 363,000,000 dollars’ worth of goods before the United States entered the war was introduced to-day- before the Senate Investigation Committee. Altogether, Morgan’s companies purchased 3,000,000,000 dollars in supplies for the Allies, upon which they received a commission of 30,000,00{). It was also disclosed that Morgan’s invited the British Government, before the American entry into the war, to purchase an .interest in an American arms factory- and that the firm transmitted, confidentially, to the British Exchequer, advance information concerning drafts of notes which President Wilson wrote to the various belligerents.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 75, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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