ARMS TRAFFIC

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 19

ARMS TRAFFIC

PERSONNEL OF ROYAL COMMISSION TERMS OF REFERENCE DETAILED (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELKSS ) RUGBY, February 18. The Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald) announced in the House of Commons that Sir John Eldon Bankes, formerly Lord Justice of Appeal, would be chairman of the Royal Commission on the traffic in arms. The other members would be Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Rachael Crowdy, Sir Philip Gibbs, Professor Gutteridge, Sir Kenneth Lee, and Mr J. A. Spender. The terms of reference are: "To consider and report upon the practicability and desirability, from both the national and international points of view, of the adoption (1) by the United Kingdom alone, and (2) by the United Kingdom in conjunction with other countries of the world prohibition of the private manufacture and trade in arms and munitions, and the institution of a state monopoly of such manufacture and trade; to consider and report whether there are any steps which can usefully be taken to remove or minimise the kinds of objections to which private manufacture is stated in article VIII. of the Covenant of the League of Nations to be open; to examine the present arrangements in force in the United Kingdom relative to the control of the export trade in arms and munitions, and to report whether these arrangements require revision and, if so, in what directions." The Royal Commission will be appointed under the usual form of warrant, giving powers to call persons before it to give evidence, to call for information in writing and to call for and examine documents.

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