COMPLAINT AGAINST BRITISH FIRM
U.S. Patents Committee (Received April 17, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 16. The special assistant Attorney-Gen-eral, Mr. John Henry Lewin, continuing his testimony to the Senate Patents Committee today, said that the outbreak of the war in 1939 cut off supplies which were much needed by a tool-manufacturing company in Coventry, England, whereupon it appealed •to the Carboloy Company, which is a subsidiary of the American General Electric Corporation. British Thomson Houston, Ltd., in which General Electric was substantially interested, refused to exchange technical information with the other English firms after the outbreak of the war. Before the.se much-needed supplies could be effected, it was arranged that British Thomson Houston, Ltd., should receive a share of the profits in this transaction. Mr. Lewin said, “These negotiations precipitated a situation in which British Thomson Houston, Ltd., apparently placed its business affairs above the national interests of the United Kingdom at a time when the future of that Kingdom looked very dark indeed.”
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 173, 18 April 1942, Page 7
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