AMERICAN ARMS ENQUIRY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21325, 19 November 1934, Page 11

AMERICAN ARMS ENQUIRY

. * Chairman Explains Use Of King's Name HOPE OF EMBARRASSING COMMITTEE (-IKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGaAra—copyright.) (Received November 18, 7.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, November 16. That the purpose of the introduction of the King's name into the Senate Committee's investigation of the munitions industry at Washington recently was to embarrass the enquiry, is the opinion of Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, who discussed the incident in an interview here to-day. Explaining how the communication containing the reference to the King was introduced, Senator Nye said: "It was brought in with the consent of the entire committee. There was hardly a second thought given to it at the time. Had we refrained from inserting it, though, it would have been discovered, there would have been a day of reckoning. There are people who delight in taking a rap at him. Ws should never have heard the last of it.

"There was no charge nor any. spirit of accusation accompanying the committee's action. It became part of the official record of the committee, and stands for just exactly what it is, nothing more nor less. It involved a letter written by a representative of an American munitions firm who was striving to explain what terrific competition he had and his alibi in part seemed to want to show 'that British munitions competition even had to resort to the help of the King."